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casparb 's review for:
The Aspern Papers
by Henry James
I don’t know why I have such a hiatus when I go from James novels because he’s always amazing to me I always look at that prose and go o my o my
Aspern here is no different this is exquisitely written and so delicately melancholy I’d love to see a comparison of this and Death in Venice I have strong suspicions Mann gave this many glances during that composition.
Also loving James’ blend of his narrator’s pomposity and his queer obsession with his poet-idol to develop a voice of so many telling hues -
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one's god is in himself a defense. Besides, today, after his long comparative obscuration, he hangs high in the heaven of our literature, for all the world to see; he is a part of the light by which we walk. The most I said was that he was no doubt not a woman's poet
It’s a prismatic tale amazingly rich it doesn’t move so much as refract. It feels both long and abrupt & I mean that as a compliment. I need to get more James going
Aspern here is no different this is exquisitely written and so delicately melancholy I’d love to see a comparison of this and Death in Venice I have strong suspicions Mann gave this many glances during that composition.
Also loving James’ blend of his narrator’s pomposity and his queer obsession with his poet-idol to develop a voice of so many telling hues -
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one's god is in himself a defense. Besides, today, after his long comparative obscuration, he hangs high in the heaven of our literature, for all the world to see; he is a part of the light by which we walk. The most I said was that he was no doubt not a woman's poet
It’s a prismatic tale amazingly rich it doesn’t move so much as refract. It feels both long and abrupt & I mean that as a compliment. I need to get more James going