亨利•詹姆斯（Henry James,1843—1916）

十九世紀繼霍桑、麥爾維爾之後最偉大的美國小說傢，也是美國乃至世界文學史上的大文豪。齣生在紐約的亨利•詹姆斯長期旅居歐洲，對十九世紀末美國和歐洲的上層生活有細緻入微的觀察，因此其作品無一不涉及美國與歐洲在文化上的差異與衝突。代錶作有長篇小說《一位女士的畫像》《鴿翼》《使節》《金鉢記》，中篇小說《黛西•米勒》《阿斯彭文稿》《螺絲在擰緊》等。此外還寫瞭許多文學評論、遊記、傳記和劇本。他擅長描繪內心意識的微妙變化，被認為是心理分析小說的開創者之一，是二十世紀小說意識流寫作技巧的先驅，對二十世紀崛起的現代派及後現代派文學有著非常巨大的影響。

He handled it with tenderness, with ceremony, making a place for it on a small satin mat. "My Golden Bowl," he observed--and it sounded on his lips as if it said everything. He left the important object--for as "important" it did somehow present itself--to produce its certain effect. Simple but singularly elegant, it stood on a circular foot, a short pedestal with a slightly spreading base, and, though not of signal depth, justified its title by the charm of its shape as well as by the tone of its surface. It might have been a large goblet diminished, to the enhancement of its happy curve, by half its original height.