Henry James was born in New York in 1843 and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876. His literary output was prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The American; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916.
Anita Brookner is the author of twenty novels, including Falling Slowly, Undue Influence, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. She lives in London.
One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her independence. But Isabel’s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. “James’s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved,” writes Hortense Calisher, “make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot.”
世事难料,人心险恶,防不胜防。把自由当成自己“护身符”的伊莎贝尔,最终却使之变成了自己的“枷锁”,不仅落入彀中,还深陷其中放弃了自救。 伊莎贝尔是幸运的,带着对美好生活的向往和自由精神的追求,带着新旧大陆三个男人或深情、或克制、或绅士的爱,还有时刻关注自己情...
評分已经把书还了,但是所有情节都在我脑海里恣意伸展。第一次发现,用心去读一本心理描写丰富的外国小说是如此惬意如此涤荡心灵的历程。亨利詹姆斯爱用大段的景物烘托,爱花大量笔墨去勾勒人物内心活动,爱置身事外评论他笔下的人物……这些都是从前见了外国作品就绕道而行...
評分Henry James受George Eliot影响非常明显,喜欢借助大量细腻的心理刻画来塑造人物性格,但他失败之处在于缺乏足够的对话和行动支撑,人物形象过于抽象,远远不及George Eliot笔下的人物生动饱满,甚至人物性格的定位也缺乏说服力。尤其主角的portrait,本来就因为视角繁...
評分I suddenly found myself sobbing like a baby after reading this novel, as if I myself had confronted that tragic destiny of Isabel. It’s said that a novel is in its broadest sense a personal, a direct impression of life. When we read between the lines, we a...
評分Life is better, because there is love. Death is good, but there's no love.
评分Life is better, because there is love. Death is good, but there's no love.
评分Life is better, because there is love. Death is good, but there's no love.
评分Life is better, because there is love. Death is good, but there's no love.
评分Life is better, because there is love. Death is good, but there's no love.
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