Ваша оценкаHenry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity, James produced, in The Awkward Age, one of the finest, most rounded...
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Аноним16 ноября 2014 г.With a relation NOT imaginative to his material the storyteller has nothing whatever to do.Читать далееКаждый роман Генри Джеймса это подарок. Сложный, порою труднодоступный, но от того еще более ценный дар.
Генри Джеймс в мои любимые писатели попал сразу же, с первого же прочтения, с первого же романа. И каждая новая встреча с ним это счастье.
Между блестящим и таким любимым у Джеймса "Женским портретом" раннего, более классического периода, и знаменитой тройкой позднего Джеймса, уже практически модерниста ("Крылья голубки", "Золотая чаша", "Послы") есть вот это, совершенное в своем роде, исследование межличностных отношений в семье, обществе, истории.
Эксклюзивные диалоги, тонкий психологизм, уже не реализм , но еще и не модернизм, и глубочайшее понимание человеческой души, и такое потрясающее понимание души женской во всех ее ипостасях.
We've supposed we've had it all, have squeezed the last impression out of the last disappointment, penetrated to the last familiarity in the last surprise; then some fine day we find that we haven't done justice to life. There are little things that pop up and make us feel again.28239
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- Аноним14 апреля 2013 г.
With a relation NOT imaginative to his material the storyteller has nothing whatever to do.
8168 - Аноним14 апреля 2013 г.Читать далее
The truth is that what a happy thought has to give depends immensely on the general turn of the mind capable of it, and on the fact that its loyal entertainer, cultivating fondly its possible relations and extensions, the bright efflorescence latent in it, but having to take other things in their order too, is terribly at the mercy of his mind. That organ has only to exhale, in its degree, a fostering tropic air in order to produce complications almost beyond reckoning. The trap laid for his superficial convenience resides in the fact that, though the relations of a human figure or a social occurrence are what make such objects interesting, they also make them, to the same tune, difficult to isolate, to surround with the sharp black line, to frame in the square, the circle, the charming oval, that helps any arrangement of objects to become a picture. The storyteller has but to have been condemned by nature to a liberally amused and beguiled, a richly sophisticated, view of relations and a fine inquisitive speculative sense for them, to find himself at moments flounder in a deep warm jungle.
7101 - Аноним14 апреля 2013 г.Читать далее
The little ideas one wouldn't have treated save for the design of keeping them small, the developed situations that one would never with malice prepense have undertaken, the long stories that had thoroughly meant to be short, the short subjects that had underhandedly plotted to be long, the hypocrisy of modest beginnings, the audacity of misplaced middles, the triumph of intentions never entertained-with these patches, as I look about, I see my experience paved: an experience to which nothing is wanting save, I confess, some grasp of its final lesson.
This lesson would, if operative, surely provide some law for the recognition, the determination in advance, of the just limits and the just extent of the situation, ANY situation, that appeals, and that yet, by the presumable, the helpful law of situations, must have its reserves as well as its promises. The storyteller considers it because it promises, and undertakes it, often, just because also making out, as he believes, where the promise conveniently drops.7103
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