The Portrait of a Lady
Now a Major Motion Picture. Directed by Jane Campion. Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
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"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.
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The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, Regina Barreca
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1995
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- Titel
- The Portrait of a Lady
- Untertitel
- Now a Major Motion Picture. Directed by Jane Campion. Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Henry James, Regina Barreca
- Verlag
- Signet
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1995
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0451191307
- ISBN13
- 9780451191304
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Liebe, Frauen, USA, Frankreich, Pflanzen, Amerikanische Literatur, Südeuropa, Italien, 19. Jahrhundert, England, Großbritannien, Verfilmt, Ehe, London, Amerika, Reise, Krankheiten, Paris, Schicksal, Rom, Kräuter, Sinti und Roma, Betrügereien, Erbe, Florenz, Bewusstseinsstrom
- Erstveröffentlichung
- 1881
- Originaltitel
- The Portrait of a Lady
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- 4,05 von 5 Sternen
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- "The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.