Henry James frasi celebri
“Chiamo ricca la gente ch'è in grado di realizzare gl'impulsi della propria immaginazione.”
The Portrait of a Lady
p. 255
Frasi sulla vita di Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady
Origine: Da L'arte della narrativa; citato in Lilla Maione, introduzione a Robert Louis Stevenson, L'isola del tesoro, traduzione di Lilla Maione, Universale Economica Feltrinelli, X ed., Milano, 2014, p. 31.
Frasi sulla bellezza di Henry James
1988, p. 49
Henry James Frasi e Citazioni
The Turn of the Screw
Origine: Da Transatlantic Sketches, 1875; citato in Perugia, Guide Electa Umbria, 1993.
Origine: Da La lezione dei maestri.
Origine: Citato in Aline B. Saarinen, I grandi collezionisti americani, Einaudi Editore, 1977 da La Lettura, Rizzoli Editore, dicembre 1977.
Henry James: Frasi in inglese
Said by Mrs. Brookenham in The Awkward Age http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/akage10.txt (1899), book VI, ch. III.
Henry James Byron, Our Boys (1875), Act I
Misattributed
The Figure in the Carpet http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext96/fgcpt10h.htm (1896).
“There are few things more exciting to me, in short, than a psychological reason.”
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6, ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).
Letter to Henry Adams (21 March 1914).
“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
Variant text: The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does compete with life.
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
“In art economy is always beauty.”
The Altar of the Dead.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
"The Journal of the Brothers de Goncourt," Fortnightly Review (October 1888).
“There are bad manners everywhere, but an aristocracy is bad manners organized.”
The Point of View HTTP://BOOKS.GOOGLE.COM/books?id=FrQRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22there+are+bad+manners+everywhere+but+an+aristocracy+is+bad+manners+organized%22&pg=PA289#v=onepage (1882)
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
“We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.”
The Aspern Papers; The Turn of the Screw; The Liar; The Two Faces.
Prefaces (1907-1909)
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)
The Art of Fiction http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html (1884)