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Escritor estadounidense y británico (1843–1916)
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Henry James fue un autor estadounidense-británico. Es considerado una figura clave de transición entre el realismo literario y el modernismo literario, y muchos lo consideran uno de los más grandes novelistas en lengua inglesa. Fue hijo del teólogo Henry James Sr. y hermano del filósofo y psicólogo William James y de la diarista Alice James.
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“[of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones] [it is] like a vast episode in a sermon preached by a grandly humorous divine; and however we may be entertained by the way, we must not forget that our ultimate duty is to be instructed.”
“However incumbent it may be on most of us to do our duty, there is, in spite of a thousand narrow dogmatisms, nothing in the world that anyone is under the least obligation to like — not even (one braces one's self to risk the declaration) a particular kind of writing.”
“We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted.”
“She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. She had an ideal of friendship as well as of several other sentiments, which it failed to seem to her in this case – it had not seemed to her in other cases – that the actual completely expressed.”
“Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.”
“The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.”
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