The Southern Quarterly,
vol. XXXIII, 1 (Fall 1994), p. 27--31.
Anne Foata
The Knocking at the Door :
A Fantasy on Fate, Forster and Beethoven's Fifth
Abstract.
Near the beginning of Howards End, Margaret and Helen Schlegel
attend a concert at the Queen's Hall in London. Helen has a knack for
finding meanings in music, for ``turning'' music into literature or painting.
For Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, she devises a startling fantasy that not
only sums up her life to that point and her vision of life in general but
-and this is my contention in this article- at the same time points to the
very structure of Howards End, thus providing the musical
subtext of the novel.
anne2.foata@wanadoo.fr
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