Homosexuality Writing,Historical Writing And Religious Writing

Almost all of Maugham's novels have had Chinese versions now,and the study in China are usually based on these Chinese versions.But some of Maugham's novels,such as The Making of a Saint,didn't have a Chinese version yet.so the research on this novel is still blank.It is necessary to make a deep study on this book to fully understand the writer Maugham.This study introduces the reason of selecting this topic and the significance of the research,and then reviewed the achievements of the study on Maugham's works,especially the research on the The Making of a Saint.The main content of the first chapter is an analysis of the hidden information that under the main story of The Making of a Saint.Maugham is a gay,which makes him very miserable in the society at that time.He had mentioned that the painful secret has been released in his work.This writing,hidden under the main text,makes the whole work full of disrupts and cracks.The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the historical writing of the The Making of a Saint.This is the first attempt by Maugham to create a historical novel,the attempt is not very successful.However,this attempt makes Maugham know what he really want to express and find the future direction of writing.The third chapter is about the theme of religion pursuit in the The Making of a Saint.This pursuit is one of the main lines that runs throughout the novel.Such a theme have got further deepening in the later works like "Of Human Bondage","The Moon and Sixpence" and " The Razor's Edge " and so on.From this perspective,"The Making of a Saint" can be said to be a prototype of these novels.It was the "pursuit novels" that made the works of Maugham reached the height of philosophy which made his works have an attractive power.In general,as the second novel of Maugham,the "The Making of a Saint" not only itself has a high research value,but also has important influence on his later novels.