EL AMERICANO

EL AMERICANO

HENRY JAMES

$835.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALBA
Materia
NOVELAS
ISBN:
978-84-8428-003-3
Idioma:
Castellano

«James es en sus novelas como los mejores críticos franceses a la hora de mantener un punto de vista, una posición desde donde ver que no se ve afectada por ideas parásitas. Es el hombre más inteligente de su generación.» T. S. Eliot

Christopher Newman, «el americano», «el hombre nuevo», «el gran bárbaro del Oeste», llega a París dispuesto a «ver todas las cosas importantes y hacer lo que hace la gente inteligente». Casarse se encuentra también entre sus expectativas, y ninguna mujer parece adecuarse tanto a ellas como madame de Cintré, una joven viuda perteneciente a una rancia casta de aristócratas. Newman piensa que, con su dinero, podrá vencer las reticencias y el orgullo de una familia poco inclinada a emparentar con –como ellos dicen– «una persona mercantil». Y en un principio así parece… pero, como un día le advierte el hermano menor de madame de Cintré, «los árboles viejos tienen ramas torcidas, las casas viejas tienen grietas curiosas, las viejas estirpes tiene raros secretos. ¡Recuerde que tenemos ochocientos años!». La comedia de sociedad se ensombrece de pronto con el oscuro legado de los siglos, que hace su gótica aparición en forma de duelos, vergonzosos secretos, crímenes y clausuras de por vida. Newman aprende así lo que oculta y lo que depara no sólo la vieja Europa, sino también su propio deseo de ella.El americano (1876-77) es la primera novela propiamente «internacional» de Henry James y constituye ya una muestra excelente de su personalidad y su estilo.

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    Excerpt: "We talked of London, face to face with a great bristling, primeval glacier. The hour and the scene were one of those impressions which make up a little, in Switzerland, for the modern indignity of travel—the promiscuities and vulgarities, the station and the hotel, the gregarious patience, the struggle for a scrappy attention, the reduction to a numbered state. The hi...

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  • ITALIAN HOURS
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    Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's people: "Their habitations are decayed; their taxes heavy; their pockets light; their op...

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  • DAISY MILLER
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    Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winte...

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  • THE BEAST IN THE JUNGLE
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    The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the wo...

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  • THE ASPERN PAPERS
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    The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved them until she died. ...

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  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW
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    The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring f...

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