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Henry James, Autobiografia degli anni di mezzo

“Era quella un’epoca baffuta”. Virginia Woolf, The Old World Credo di avere un problema con le prefazioni che la Woolf ha scritto per le opere jamesiane: avevo già letto l’introduzione al volume delle Storie di fantasmi curato da Leon Edel, e ho trovato quella come questa noiosa, poco brillante. Forse il mio errore consiste nell’averla […]

Henry James, Racconti di fantasmi

Il soprannaturale jamesiano. Premessa Gli studi jamesiani erano così promimenti nel mio dipartimento di anglo-americano che ben tre esami del mio curriculm includevano Henry James: uno era monografico, un secondo analizzava storia ed istituzioni degli States attraverso le opere dei fratelli James… Ho quindi sviluppato un persistente e malcelato odio per il romanziere. Conservo ancora, […]

Henry James, The Jolly Corner

Henry James’ last ghost story, and his finest since The Turn of the Screw, is also his final meditation on some of his most personal concerns: the international theme, the American who goes back after a long period spent in the Old World, and his impressions of a rapidly changing country that at the turn […]

Henry James, The Beast in the Jungle

Jamesian studies in my department were so strong that three courses of my curriculum dealt with Henry James, of which one was monographic and a second analyzed American history and institutions through the works of the James Bros. (I shan’t dwell). As a consequence I developed a barely-concealed and strong dislike for the novelist. On […]

Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

‘A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale’. – Oscar Wilde (being not a proper comment, just notes to be read after the story). I’ve always enjoyed the anecdote that inspired James to write this novella. On January the 10th, 1895, he was hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, at Addington Park (the […]