The Reverberator, A Novel

Resumen del libro

It's unclear why even many Henry James fans aren't familiar with this wicked early work, as it's James at his scathing best-- piercing, elegant, and ahead of his time.

The story of an American hack journalist in Europe, The Reverberator is an early example of James' fascination with Americans confronting Europe's version of civilized society. Yet here he gives the theme a sly twist, as the Europeans find themselves enamored with a particularly uncivil brand of Americanism...

George Flack, a rising star in the scandal-mongering new American journalism of the 1880s, finds himself posted to Paris as a foreign correspondent for The Reverberator. And, like half of Paris, he finds himself in love with the beautiful but na ve-- and engaged-- American girl Francie Dosson. But when Francie innocently reveals something about her fiancé's snobby family to Flack, Francie, her fiancé, and all of Paris suddenly find themselves in a public scandal of a type not seen before in the world's most sophisticated city.

Informed, no doubt, by James own, miserable experience as a Paris-based correspondent for the New York Tribune, The Reverberator features his normal lucid and penetrating prose, although less complicated than his later prose-- and with a bit of extra zing his fans may not expect.

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