Hallo,
ich würde gerne mal wieder einen Leserundenvorschlag machen, da ich gesehen habe, daß einige dieses Buch auf ihrer SLW-Liste stehen haben. Es geht um The Wings of the Dove, von Henry James. Der Zeitpunkt ist mir relativ egal, ausser Anfang bis Mitte Mai, da ich zu dieser Zeit in England sein und nicht so oft Zeit für's Internet haben werde.
Kurzbeschreibung
Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work. Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, The Wings of the Dove offers an unfettered vision of our civilization and its discontents. It represents a culmination of James's art and, as such, of the art of the novel itself.
Ich würde mich sehr freuen, wenn einige von Euch Lust hätten mitzulesen.
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Viele Grüße Tina
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