![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() it details the a story of the relationship that develops between a man and a woman with whom he was enamored in his youth. this is about the dangers of literature upon the fragile human psyche, and the transportive power of words. yeah, i said it: henry james is a drag, man. This is somewhat similar to turn of the screw with all its spooky ambiguity, but without all that tortured prose. This book contains two novellas, which is the usual format for hesperus books (and if you don't know them, you should check out their list, because they are great, and strangely - they seem to do a lot of books that involve supernatural elements from authors who don't usually do the supernatural, which is interesting. So - phew - still "real literature" and not some early russian paranormal romance. This led to a degree of criticism from those of his contemporaries who insisted on the pre-eminence of realism in literature, but such disapproval might be countered with the argument that here the supernatural should actually be interpreted not literally, but psychologically, as the projection of the characters' troubled feelings about their situation. and yet it is still a "real book" despite the presence of haints, although david would most likely be among turgenev's detractors for this. Who knew turgenev did the supernatural? well he did. ![]()
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