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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
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There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.'

The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic is determined to seize them. What can he make of the younger woman? What are his motives? What are the papers worth and what is he prepared to pay? In all four stories collected here, including 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace', the figure of the artist is central. Extraordinarily prophetic, James explores the emergent new cult of the writer as celebrity, and asks, who cares about the work for itself? Can the man behind the artist ever truly be known, and does our knowledge explain the act of creativity? This new edition includes extracts from James's Prefaces and Notebooks which shed light on the genesis of the stories.

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目次: 

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
Chronology
'The Aspern Papers'
'The Death of the Lion'
'The Figure in the Carpet'
'The Birthplace'
Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition
Appendix 2: extracts from James's Notebooks
Appendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers'
Appendix 4: variant readings
Explanatory Notes

著者について: 

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

商品情報

ISBN : 9780199639878

著者: 
Henry James; Adrian Poole
ページ
288 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
135 x 195 mm
刊行日
2013年02月
シリーズ
Oxford World's Classics
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories