The Portrait of a Lady

出版者:Bantam USA

作者:Henry James

页数:560

出版时间:1984-2-24

价格:GBP 4.29

装帧:Mass Market Paperback

isbn号码:9780553211276

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Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty.

Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph Touchett. But her vulnerability and innocence lead her not to love but to a fatal entrapment in intrigue, deception, and betrayal. This brilliant interior drama of the forming of a woman’s consciousness makes The Portrait of a Lady a masterpiece of James’s middle years.

读后感

看完了书，把坎皮恩的同名电影找出来重看了一遍，有趣的是导演在处理女主角和奥斯蒙德的恋情上突出了性的吸引，后者将女儿抱在腿上，手指抚摸女儿的手背给了女主很大的刺激，这是个很好玩的视角，因为原著给我的感觉完全是反的，不远万里随君行的美国追求者反而最有男子气概，...  

讀的第一本亨利詹姆斯，他以前是我的小說盲點，慚愧。這本在看到書之前老早有真人形象在腦中了……都怪我們電視臺動不動就播一遍簡康萍導的電影版，這些年來瞄到過四五遍不止，雖然每次都是缺頭少尾、看到哪裡是哪裡的。結果有一次總算看到了女主角的美國追求者，咦，像Viggo，...  

What Contributes to Isabel's Tragedy? For a lady who bestowed upon dazzling beauty by god, and inherited a handsome amount of money from her uncle, wonderful life, like a volume of painting , was supposed to unfold itself before her. But, for Isabel, it's...  

用户评价

It's in the setting of gloomy Rome that the nobleness in Isabel shines. In Gardencourt, she is too stereotypical to be lovable.

I... I fear life and what should come.

唯一比维多利亚小说强的地方就是人物和关系更加subtle而不过于明晰 除此之外基本没有亮点 对Isabel不同阶段间的转变写的不太清楚 对几个男suitors的刻画也不太饱满 Madame Merle的戏完全可以更足。总之就是各方面都欠

唯一比维多利亚小说强的地方就是人物和关系更加subtle而不过于明晰 除此之外基本没有亮点 对Isabel不同阶段间的转变写的不太清楚 对几个男suitors的刻画也不太饱满 Madame Merle的戏完全可以更足。总之就是各方面都欠

I... I fear life and what should come.