Room with an ‘Interior’ View
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https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i10.28147Keywords:
Secrets, Culture, Memory, Intermediality, RemediationAbstract
E.M. Forster’s book, A Room with a View, published in 1908 and labelled by the BBC as one of the 100 best British novels of the 20th century, serves as inspiration for the 1985 James Ivory’s movie with the same name. Nominated for eight Oscars, it won three, including the best‑adapted script. The story criticizes the hypocrisy of rigid Edwardian morality of the early 20th century in British society, where the winds of change were beginning to blow. The transpositional adaptation of literature for cinema is intertextual and intermedial, portraying a time of classicism where the beginnings of modernism were already being breathed. A Room with a View is marked by the ‘secret’ of Lucy and George, by the images and memories of Florence, by the music, but also by the attraction exerted by Italy on the English, as well as by the snobbism of the upper‑middle class, in contrast with the values of truth and honesty defended by George’s father, Mr. Emerson. In the background, there is an apparent conspiracy of Charlotte, Lucy’s cousin, in favor of the romance. The aspiration for a room with a view represents, metaphorically, the opening of horizons and the soul of young Lucy Honeychurch.
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