福斯特(1879-1970),英国20世纪最杰出的小说家之一,是一位有着自由人文主义理想的中产阶级知识分子,他认为人际关系和艺术是人生中最为重要的事情。受英国剑桥大学布卢姆斯伯里学术团体自由人文主义思想的影响,其作品表现出对不同阶层、不同民族、不同宗教信仰甚至不同性别之间人与人的关系的关怀,试图寻找一种特殊的方式来消除人们之间的阻隔——用爱来消除一切的分歧和隔阂,建立人类和谐共处的家园。 Foster (1879-1970), one of Britain’s most prominent novelists of the 20th century, is a middle-class intellectual with liberal humanism. He believes that interpersonal relationships and the arts are the most important things in life. Influenced by liberal humanism of the Bloomsbury academic community of the University of Cambridge, UK, his works show concern for the relationship between people of different classes, ethnic groups, religions and even different genders, and are trying to find a A special way to eliminate the barrier between people - with love to eliminate all the differences and barriers, to establish a harmonious coexistence of human beings home.