The Portrait of a Lady -

Henry James

Everyman's Library

1992

672 páginas

22h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780679405627

Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece.

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3 1/2
É um livro com um final inesperado, moderno para o século 19th, mas coerente com a vida.
Isabel é uma personagem que busca sair do padrão imposto pela sociedade, mas acaba caindo nele por suas próprias ações. Mas não precisa de heróis para salva-la, ela escolhe lidar com as consequências das suas decisões.
Ralph é o meu personagem favorito, aquele que passa a vida esperando para morrer, e no fim alcança seus objetivos.