All a Novelist Needs

Resumen del libro

This book collects, for the first time, Colm Toibin's critical essays on Henry James. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his novel about James's life, "The Master," Toibin brilliantly analyzes James from a novelist's point of view.

Known for his acuity and originality, Toibin is himself a master of fiction and critical works, which makes this collection of his writings on Henry James essential reading for literary critics. But he also writes for general readers. Until now, these writings have been scattered in introductions, essays in the "Dublin Times," reviews in the "New York Review of Books," and other disparate venues.

With humor and verve, Toibin approaches Henry James's life and work in many and various ways. He reveals a novelist haunted by George Eliot and shows how thoroughly James was a New Yorker. He demonstrates how a new edition of Henry James's letters along with a biography of James's sister-in-law alter and enlarge our understanding of the master. His "Afterword" is a fictional meditation on the written and the unwritten.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colm Tóibínx{0026}lt;/B (Enniscorthy, 1955) es uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo, ganador del Forster Award en 1995 y de la Medalla Bodley en 2022. De su obra cabe destacar las novelas x{0026}lt;I The Master x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), ganadora del Premio IMPAC, el Premio al mejor libro extranjero de x{0026}lt;I Babelio, x{0026}lt;/I el Los Angeles Times Book Prize y finalista del Booker Prize; x{0026}lt;I El testamento de Maríax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), finalista del Man Booker; x{0026}lt;I Brooklynx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), su obra de ficción más conocida, llevada al cine por John Crowley y ganadora del Premio Costa Book; x{0026}lt;I Nora Websterx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), ganadora del Premio Hawthornden, x{0026}lt;I La casa de los nombres x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017) y x{0026}lt;I Madres e hijosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), una selección de los relatos recogidos en x{0026}lt;I The Empty Familyx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Mothers and Sonsx{0026}lt;/I ,ganadora delEdge Hill Short Story Prize. Tóibín es también un excelente crítico literario, como demuestran las piezas reunidas en el volumen x{0026}lt;I Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013). Su última novela, x{0026}lt;I El magox{0026}lt;/I , ha sido ganadora del premio Rathbones Folio y ha sido escogida como uno de los mejores libros de año por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I NPRx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Vogue x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . Su obra ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P