LA OTRA CASA

LA OTRA CASA

HENRY JAMES

$795.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
ALBA
Materia
NOVELAS
ISBN:
978-84-8428-179-5
Idioma:
Castellano

Una esposa enferma, su más íntima amiga y una joven vecina ocasional forman parte del círculo que rodea al banquero Tony Bream cuando, in extremis, se ve obligado a pronunciar un juramento difícil de aceptar y de cumplir. En virtud de éste, no sólo su futuro queda hipotecado, sino también el de otras personas que quizá desearían no verlo tan comprometido y cuyos actos desembocan, en medio de una densa atmósfera de culpabilidad colectiva, «en una serie de acontecimientos oscuros e infelices... en sufrimientos, peligro y muerte». La otra casa (f 896) fue la primera novela que escribió Henry James después de sus infortunados años dedicados al teatro, y de hecho parte de un guión para una obra dramática. Es una de sus piezas menos conocidas, y en muchos sentidos extraordinaria, «un estallido de rabia primitiva que parece irracional e incontrolado», según su biógrafo León Edel, pero que el escritor consideraría hasta el fin de su carrera «un precedente, una lucecita divina que alumbra mi paso». En esta historia escalofriante de abismos abiertos bajo la delicadeza de las formas, se cumple una técnica que el mismo texto anuncia: «Lo cierto es que los elementos del drama surgen cuando se comprimen con fuerza y, en algunas circunstancias, parecen invitar más al microscopio que a los gemelos del teatro».

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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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