Daisy Miller (Colecção Não Nobel) -

Henry James

Público

2011

125 páginas

4h 10m

ISBN-13: 9789896820985

Português

Daisy Miller e Winterbourne conhecem-se em Vevey, na Suíça. Ele acha que nada é melhor que a sua terra natal Schenectady, no estado de Nova Ioque, e a paixão dela é o velho continente, especialmente a alta sociedade da qual quer fazer parte a todo o custo. As atitudes de Daisy confundem Winterbourne que, ainda assim, continua a cortejar a jovem, perante o olhar reprovador da tia Sra. Costello. Genebra e Roma são o palco deste romance de Henry James.

O autor: Filho de um filósofo apaixonado pela Europa, o americano Henry James já tinha percorrido quase todos os museus e teatros de Inglaterra, Suíça e França quando fez 12 anos. Naturalizado britânico um ano antes da sua morte, James é autor de alguns dos romances e críticas literárias mais importantes da língua inglesa.

Resenhas (11)

3 (Bom)

"Say goodbye to Daisy Miller!"

The interest for this most beloved among Henry James' novels arouse during the venture of watching the complete 'Gilmore Girls' in the short period of two months. Even though the number of literary references is overwhelming, and rather impossible to be accomplished by any who endeavor to follow them closely, this one particularly caught my attention. The episode was entitled “Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller” and involved a plot of shipping one of the main characters to the old continent. With the novel serendipitously at hand I promptly rushed to take a look at it. And I was not sorry. The story of the American flirt that puzzles and shocks everyone around her is but a fine welcome to James' work. The style is soft and vigorous, without much of adornments, but filled with refine subtleties—as expected for the time and writer. Although the narrator (a portrait of James himself, some say) was not appealing, Daisy’s freshness and mystifying naïveté is enough to keep us yearning to follow Winterbourne’s steps after another glimpse of the beauty. Criticisms generally regard the character as a symbol of innocence and lack of prejudice of the young America. However (and I’m quoting Italo Calvino here) it is a tale not less mysterious than others by this introverted writer, entirely weaved by themes that always reveal themselves amidst light and shadow, tied up by what is left unsaid.