John Galsworthy his life and work. Forsyte Saga and Modern Comedy.Forsytism as a phenomenon of the English society. Plan: Introduction 3 Chapter 1. John Galsworthy his life and work 4
English novelist and playwright won the 1932 Nobel Prize
in Literature 4
1.2 The Man of Property 6
Chapter 2. Writing merely for his own amusement around 11
1.2 Important person concerning English realism 12
Conclusion 17 Reference 18 Introduction John Galsworthy (1867–1933), English novelist and playwright won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his distinguished art of narration which takes its highest form in The Forsyte Saga" published between 1906 and 1921 and as a collection in 1922. The second series of novels in the Forsyte roman fleuve would be The White Monkey (1924), The Silver Spoon (1926), andSwan Song (1928). Maid in Waiting (1931),Flowering Wilderness (1932), and Over the River(1933) comprised the third.
The Man of Property (1906) would be the first of the The Forsyte Saga. Chronicling three generations of the Victorian upper-class Forsyte family, it was followed by Indian Summer of a Forsyte, In Chancery, and Awakening in 1920 andTo Let in 1921. The Forsyte obsession with wealth, status, and acquisition is apparent. Galsworthy satirically though not unsympathetically criticises the hollow insularity of everything from matters of property and marriage to the ideologies of the very class he was born into.
"But no Age is so new as that! Human Nature, under its changing pretensions and clothes, is and ever will be very much of a Forsyte, and might, after all, be a much worse animal." --from the Preface to The Forsyte Saga
