Roderick Hudson

Resumen del libro

'I had but hugged the shore' until Roderick Hudson, wrote Henry James. This is his first full-length novel and executed with such blazing, confident, thirty-one-year-old talent that even if he had produced nothing else, his fame would have been assured. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New England to Rome by Rowland Mallet, a rich man of fine appreciative sensibilities, who intends to give Roderick the scope to develop his genius. Together they seem like twins or lovers, opposing halves of what should have been an ideal whole. Roderick Hudson contains the obsessions that inspired all James's fiction but put across with a simple force and fire that he never quite caught again. 'Whatever the merits of "The Master" who wrote The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove,, and The Golden Bowl,' observes Geoffrey Moore, 'they are not those of the "young Harry" - for whom the writing of Roderick Hudson was such a pleasure, and a triumph.'

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Henry James (Nueva York, 1843 - Londres, 1916) x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Nació en una familia acomodada norteamericana, relacionada con artistas y escritores, y ya de muy joven viajó por Europa. Empezó a estudiar Derecho, pero prefirió orientar su carrera hacia la literatura y colaboró asiduamente en la prensa. Es uno de los escritores más importantes y reconocidos de la literatura estadounidense y un gran exponente de la narrativa transatlántica. Trazó relaciones con los grandes escritores de su época, como Edith Wharton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, Iván Turguénev... Supo describir la complejidad de la alta sociedad neoyorquina en su época dorada, con mucha profundidad y un fuerte análisis psicológico de sus protagonistas.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;br x{0026}lt;/p