tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post4100014830731723481..comments2024-03-03T23:11:46.016-05:00Comments on hibernian homme: The Remarriage of Henry JamesDMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15435206223622005832noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post-32322150228414719862012-05-03T15:22:16.217-04:002012-05-03T15:22:16.217-04:00Have you read The Master, a novel about Henry Jame...Have you read The Master, a novel about Henry James? I loved it. <br />Best,<br />BBBart Boehlerthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12615567093206057490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post-19370536841149415292012-05-02T07:41:24.646-04:002012-05-02T07:41:24.646-04:00I would like you to go back to Roderick Hudson, fi...I would like you to go back to Roderick Hudson, first, for a very sound foundation in "the literature of power without force." This novel parallels your experience at the moment and offers less of the sense of the second and third-registered experiences here. It's sort of too bad that we tend to encounter James in contexts of assumption for the use of words which he simply doesn't share. We find we cannot 'put aside those tortuous sentences', for the reason that they not only articulate precisely the gold which is claimed for them in that comment, but the reluctance and the care and the perfecting of its disclosure. This is of course the agony of the book you just read, of the exploitive theft of privity from others for personal gain. <br /><br />Posting of the week.Laurenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17972899387484460347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post-88047454548269815672012-05-02T07:04:53.726-04:002012-05-02T07:04:53.726-04:00Reading this, I am inclined to give Mr. James anot...Reading this, I am inclined to give Mr. James another try. Again. I have read a number of his books over the years and found them turgid, and heavy, and excessively wordy -- I always assumed he was paid by the word for them. The quotes your provide here are marvelous. Thank you, RDReggie Darlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04044215790585354363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post-59679312820271949662012-05-02T02:38:54.055-04:002012-05-02T02:38:54.055-04:00I have a love/hate relationship with HJ -- I was r...I have a love/hate relationship with HJ -- I was reading The Golden Bowl and got about 2/3 through and then just couldn't bear any more even though I had enjoyed it up till then. But I do like this novel so I'm glad to hear you did too. And that photo is amazing!harriethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04470091985662379182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907402354452907168.post-37602227340646159312012-05-01T13:26:23.813-04:002012-05-01T13:26:23.813-04:00Hello Daniel:
We cannot say how overjoyed we are t...Hello Daniel:<br />We cannot say how overjoyed we are to learn that you are once again reunited with Henry James who, in our view, really is, putting aside those tortuous sentences, one of the greatest of all Anglo-American writers of the early years of the C20.<br /><br />He is never, in our experience, an easy writer but so, so worth persevering with not least for that remarkable richness of language and that insight into human behaviour and motivation.<br /><br />We began with 'The Spoils of Poynton' and graduated from there. If you have not read it, then do, and we should be most interested to hear what you think.Jane and Lance Hattatthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16831890261259302647noreply@blogger.com