HENRY JAMES
Henry James (1843-1916) is arguably the greatest American writers (but it really was since 'he finally naturalized British?) His work seems the perfect illustration of this quip that Fernando Pessoa: "Literature is the proof that life is not enough." Each new each James's novel explores a mood effect that the reader can not but recognize as his own, at some point in its existence. His intrigues
adopting the viewpoint of a central character in the story, exploring the phenomena of consciousness and perception and are described in the mode of interior monologue. The style of his later works have been compared to an impressionist painter. It proceeds in effect to "small touches" and shows himself an enemy of any pomposity.
"In Art Is Always beauty economy", he said.
One of its most famous new one that seems to best sum up his art is:
Aspern Papers
The new happening in Venice in the late nineteenth century. American literary critic, desperate to get hold of unpublished personal papers of poet Jeffrey Aspern, his compatriot, is introduced as a tenant in Slip Juliana, who was sixty years before the muse and lover of writer. The old lady lives with her reclusive niece, Tita, and intends to stand against the wiles of the narrator: money, gallantry, burglary, everything fails. When she finally dies, it's back to Tita that paper as desired. The hero is forced to accept the prize it very special to him in demand.
The splendor of a summer on the lagoon, the picturesque ruins of a palace in a garden where flowers again forgotten the passion that we can devote to the work of a poet, too late revival of an old small daughter became all-powerful, his revenge, these are visible from the seductions of this classic Henry James. Under the shiny surface, dialogues content emerges ambiguous thinking about writing, and where a hidden trap each reader will discover his own reflection.
Henry James and Virginia Woolf! : Probably the greatest of the English language literature.
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