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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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读这本书前几章时，乃至整部小说的阅读过程中，我常常几乎以为自己打开的是简·奥斯汀的第七本小说（类似她的女同胞J·K·罗琳，最厚的一本）。的确，这位在他72岁时终于加入英国国籍的美国人，在小说开篇时以优雅闲适的语言——这语言常被认为是不可翻译的，但博尔赫斯说：“...
評分What Contributes to Isabel's Tragedy? For a lady who bestowed upon dazzling beauty by god, and inherited a handsome amount of money from her uncle, wonderful life, like a volume of painting , was supposed to unfold itself before her. But, for Isabel, it's...
評分已经把书还了，但是所有情节都在我脑海里恣意伸展。第一次发现，用心去读一本心理描写丰富的外国小说是如此惬意如此涤荡心灵的历程。亨利詹姆斯爱用大段的景物烘托，爱花大量笔墨去勾勒人物内心活动，爱置身事外评论他笔下的人物……这些都是从前见了外国作品就绕道而行...
評分《一位女士的画像》这本书并不在我的阅读计划中。亨利·詹姆斯虽然鼎鼎大名，但我只是知道他写过《小说的艺术》。（另一个例子是E·M·福斯特，同样鼎鼎大名，写过《小说面面观》。） 读了序言之后，虽然不觉得怎么样，但还是决定把它读完。厚达700页的书，却清新流畅，可以一...
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