Alter | 72 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Drehbuchautor, Romancier, Schriftsteller |
Geburtsdatum | Samstag, 15. April 1843 |
Geburtsort | New York City, U.S. |
Todesdatum | Montag, 28. Februar 1916 |
Todesort | Chelsea, London |
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Beschreibung | Henry James war ein amerikanisch-britischer Schriftsteller. Er war der jüngere Bruder des Philosophen William James. Das Werk von James ist zwischen dem Realismus des 19. Jahrhunderts und der literarischen Moderne des 20. Jahrhunderts angesiedelt. Er schrieb vor allem Gesellschaftsromane wie Bildnis einer Dame, Daisy Miller oder Washington Square, sein bekanntestes Werk dürfte die Schauernovelle Die Drehung der Schraube sein. Viele seiner Werke fallen durch psychologisch nuanciert gezeichnete Figuren und genaue Beobachtungen von Klassen- und Kulturunterschieden auf, etwa zwischen Europäern und Amerikanern. |
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
In art economy is always beauty.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
