he book presents one of the greatest works by Henry James. An apparently common story about the encounters and conflicts between John Marcher and May Bartram. They meet again ten years after having first met in Italy. He has vague memories regarding the circumstances involved in their first encounter, but May remembers everything, including a confession made by Marcher. He revealed that he would meet with a "rare and strange" event at some moment in his life. So, May decides to share in his wait for the beast to leap out of the jungle. The design of the book follows the evolution of the narrative. As their wait becomes more dramatic, the stock of the paper becomes heavier, the colouring becomes darker and the text spacing becomes more compressed. The interpretation of the text by the design of the book is a mark that distinguishes the Coleção Particular, of which The Beast in the Jungle is the third title. The other volumes are Bartleby, o escrivão (Bartleby, the Scrivener), by Herman Melville, and Primeiro amor (Premier amour), by Samuel Beckett. José Geraldo Couto´s translation maintains James´ literariness and skillfully follows his tortuous sentences and rhythm. The afterword was written by Modesto Carone, one of Brazil´s most important literary critics. The edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of Cosac Naify.
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Henry James
Henry James, romancista americano nascido em Nova Iorque, a 15 de Abril de 1843, naturalizou-se cidadão inglês em 1915. Criador de uma vasta obra (escreveu 20 romances, 112 contos, 12 peças de teatro e alguns artigos de crítica literária), Henry James é uma das grandes figuras literárias de língua inglesa. Beneficiou de uma educação esmerada, pois o seu pai era um dos mais conhecidos intelectuais americanos. Durante a juventude, Henry James realizou viagens frequentes à Europa, vindo mais tarde a viver em Paris, onde foi correspondente do New York Tribune, e em Inglaterra, país onde viria a morrer em 1916. Autor de obras-primas como Daisy Miller (1879), Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886) e The Embassadors (1903), Henry James foi postumamente laureado com graus pelas Universidades de Oxford e Harvard, eleito para o National Institute of Arts and Letters e, em 1950, para a American Academy of Arts and Letters, tendo recebido também a Ordem de Mérito pelo Rei George V.
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