Henry James' Midnight Song -

Carol de Chellis Hill

W. W. Norton & Company

1995

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-13: 9780393312294

Vienna Fin-de-Siècle — a society of almost unprecedented vitality, enlivened by new movements in music, art, fashion, literature, psychology, and love. Yet Vienna is a society on the edge of chaos. Beneath the glittering surface it seethes with conflict and ethnic tension. Divided by anti-Semitism, racism, feminism, sex, and the denial of sex, it is a society remarkably similar to our own. . .

When a bloody body disappears from Dr. Freud's studio, Inspector Maurice Le Blanc must cope with Freud and his colleagues Dr. Fliess, Dr. Jung and his lover Sabina Spielrein; Henry James & Edith Wharton; and many others! Will the Inspector Leblanc solve the murders before a riot ensues?

Is Vienna in 1900 merely a stage on which the same tensions that haunt American society today are being given a dress rehearsal? Are we, like the Viennese of 1900, suffering from fin-de-siècle syndrome? Is there such a thing? Combining the historical imagination of Ragtime with the intellectual audacity of Flaubert's Parrot, 'Henry James' Midnight Song' brilliantly blends history and fiction in a fast-moving, breathtakingly original novel of ideas.