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Cargando... The Ambassadors (1903 original; edición 2020)por Henry James (Autor)
Información de la obraLos embajadores por Henry James (1903)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Challenging to read as Henry James gives nothing away. Yet, a lesson in subtle interactions and reading between the lines. ( ) Protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether agrees to travel to Paris to attempt to convince his fiancée’s wayward son, Chad, to return to the US to run the family business. What he finds in Paris is different than expected. Chad is a pleasant young man who has been positively influenced by his associations with a woman and her daughter. Strether meets the two and comes to enjoy their company. A new set of “ambassadors” is sent by his fiancée when Strether fails to obtain the desired action. Over the course of the story, Strether gradually changes his point of view, which in turn, changes what he values in life. “His greatest uneasiness seemed to peep at him out of the imminent impression that almost any acceptance of Paris might give one’s authority away. It hung before him this morning, the vast bright Babylon, like some huge iridescent object, a jewel brilliant and hard, in which parts were not to be discriminated nor difference comfortably marked. It twinkled and trembled and melted together, and what seemed all surface one moment seemed all depth the next.” Published in 1903, it was originally written as a serial in the North American Review. I think I may have appreciated it more if I had read it in its original form. As a novel, the primary drawback is that it does not flow very well, and there are many lengthy circuitous sentences. I did not enjoy it quite as much as James’s Portrait of a Lady, which I recommend reading ahead of this one, but overall, I enjoyed it and found it worth my time. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Los mejores libros jams escritos El choque entre la inocencia americana y la experiencia europea es el tema principal de la que el propio autor consideraba su mejor novela. Los embajadores es la muestra de mayor refinamiento del tema favorito de Henry James: el choque entre la inocencia americana y la experiencia europea. En esta ocasin, relata el viaje a Pars de Lambert Strether, un maduro hombre de mundo, con la misin de rescatar de las garras de una malvada europea al joven Chadwick, el hijo de la seora Newsome, una viuda rica de Nueva Inglaterra. Sin embargo, este embajador caer rendido a los pies de la cultura europea y a nuevas maneras de relacionarse. El presente volumen se abre con una introduccin del prestigioso escritor irlands Colm Tibn, seguidor declarado de la senda jamesiana, a la que se aade una cronologa sobre el autor. Asimismo, reproducimos la traduccin que Antonio-Prometeo Moya, reconocido traductor y novelista, revis a la luz de las ms modernas ediciones crticas del texto original. Salta a la vista -observ el hombre tras unos segundos- que as es como no me ve usted. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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