The Life To Come
I've been reading E.M. Forster for my British Literature II course and I think I've found a writer that I need to dive into headfirst.
No puns intended.
He wrote "A Passage to India" and other novels during the early-mid 1900s. He was also a short story writer and it was one of his short stories, "A Life to Come", that really got me interested in his work.
The story focuses on a missionary and his homosexual relationship with a native chief he converts to Christianity. The chief views Christianity as love and acceptance and the missionary ends up becoming a hypocrite and a cruel overlord when the native society is converted to Christianity. It's a beautiful tale of duality that I highly recommend.
Fantastic story...I wish I could write half as good as writers like Forster.