Giro di vite
A Gothic, Classics, Horror book. his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love....
Protagonisti di Giro di vite, forse il più celebre tra i romanzi brevi di Henry James, sono Flora e Miles, due bambini perseguitati dai fantasmi di un'istitutrice e di un maggiordomo, e intrappolati in quella che Fausta Cialente nella nota al testo definisce una tirannica atmosfera. Ai classici motivi del racconto nero, gotico, James unisce una sottile indagine psicologica, consegnando al lettore uno dei piú suggestivi racconti del mistero, sempre al confine tra realtà e sovrannaturale.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 180 pages
- ISBN: 9788806177164 / 8806177168
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Make (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw // THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak! Henry James, The Turn of the Screw // his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw //
It is the worst thing in the world to leave children with servants. Maria Edgeworth , Practical Education, 1798Of all the vulgar superstitions of the half educated, none dies harder than the absurd delusion that there is no such thing as ghosts. William T Stead, Real Ghost Stories, 1897The T of the S is a very mechanical matter, I honestly... Now you see me, ...now you dont.. What the... Meaning, understanding and certainty all become elusive chimera in this ambiguous game of hide-and-seek that Henry James plays with us. Have you ever been in one of those weird situations where you wondered if you were losing your mind, doubting whether what you were seeing was real? And...... ...my imagination had, in a flash, turned real. He did stand there!I could not decide whether I was more intrigued by the Gothic thriller or the intricate jalebi of the prose, a truly - truly - labyrinthine prose, which James employs with great effect for the purpose of dissimulation. (Folks would later dub it 'unreliable narration.')...
