"I racconti nel cassetto di E.M.Forster: La vita che verrà e altri racconti"

[Machine translation] Focusing on homosexual stories not published during the author's lifetime, the essay proposes a theoretical and methodological reflection, on the space of the closet and its temporality, in theme with the indication of the life to come of these stories. While some, are more realistic, others choose a fantastic and almost supernatural resolution to express the social impossibility of homosexual (male) desire. A story less commented on than others, Arthur Snatchfold, is given special consideration for its ending, which ends with a private notebook, similar to the Locked Journal kept by Forster himself. What meaning can we attribute to a literature without readers, to a literature to come, similar to an unsent letter? These are just some of the questions posed by a semi-private but not public literature, that is to say, by a literature from the closet, locked in a drawer. Temporality and the particular promise and freedom invoked by this literature are the themes brought into focus by this essay, which brings Forster's so-called homosexual production back to the fore, but which in reality is played on a completely different level from that of a homosexual identity.