novel Story - A Book for Writers: "Aspects of the Novel by EM Forster"

The most useful book of essays that I have ever read about the fictional data from the years 1927 and refers to works by authors such as Dostoevsky, Melville, Thomas Hardy and DH Lawrence. The good news: Even if you have not read a single book by the authors, you can always find the fascinating aspects of the novel, relevant and useful for your work. I am committed - if you write commercial sci-fi mysteries or literary studies.
EM Forster, writer and frequent recipient (or victim, depending on viewpoint) Ivory films, gave a lecture in Cambridge in 1927, which were then published as aspects of the novel. Chapter of the book "The Story" are "popular," "The Plot", "Fantasy," "Prophecy" and "pattern and rhythm." That's it. These are topics of forestry, and it extends in a nutshell: This book is only about 175 pages.
Perhaps Forster says, a writer from another era, you have still not heard especially when it deals with a subject is as complex as the story in a seventeen pages only? I invite you to a brief explanation of the difference between history and intrigue than to find these:

    "The king is dead, then the queen died" is a story. "The king is dead, then the queen died of grief" is a conspiracy.
Of course, Forster develops his view, but that's not a bad start, right? Even if your fi is laden with history, he can use the act as defined Forster. Much of the reading fiction novel I loaded with history, but who needs the land - even if at one step or in a single paragraph. This book will help you to understand, how to change that. (Hint: it has a lot to do with the word why.)
You can view a list of chapters and think what the $% * # the prophecy? Two pages will begin to understand you. I can not do it justice, but it is a quality Forster sees the greatest novelists, not in real good. It's about characters that are both real part of something more than themselves. Our author makes no bones about his opinion on who fits into the category, but I'll let you find these opinions to himself. Whether you are your favorites for their favorites, is not the problem anyway. The fact is that his views can help you write your own comes closest, transcendent level.
Forster through examples of extensive work on his points, War and Peace Wuthering Heights - do well, have for some obscure novels of his own time, each one of us, or will be heard again. But do not worry, it provides perfect examples for each to improve product on their arguments and explain his points. And it may inspire you to go and some classics: After finishing aspects of the novel, I finally decided on war and peace, to read "be (tell us, he loves it).
He begins the book categorically refused to discuss fiction in chronological order, or in the "influences and schools," the things he sees as "pseudo-knowledge." Instead, it presents the following picture:

    The weather throughout, must be our enemy. We see the ... Novelists, not as floating on the river that bears his son away all if they are cautious, but as together in a room, a circular space ... All writing their novels simultaneously.
Who would not like a fly on the wall and hear the conversation in this space? And it draws us further into this space with a series of couplets: Pairs of extracts (first) novel, unidentified, which he compares and contrasts illuminated perfectly fine, but deep, can two writers and the same for both different.
Forster begins with the essential and necessary, history, gradually takes us back from the more esoteric topics and subjective fantasy and fiction in the prophetic and the towers of the discussion on the basics: pattern and rhythm. His thoughts are on each opinionated, funny and still very relevant almost a century later. This may explain why Forster's novels are still popular and relevant a century after its publication.