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Ladataan... The Turn of the Screw (1898)Tekijä: Henry James
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I was in the mood for some creepy gothic horror and The Turn of the Screw fit my needs perfectly. I love the writing and story. Really happy I finally got around to reading this novella. ( ) Il giro di vite racconta una storia di fantasmi e devo dire che la prima volta che uno di loro ha fatto la sua apparizione a una finestra me la sono fatta sotto: sembrava proprio il tipo di romanzo che mi avrebbe riempito di inquietudine e fatto venire la pelle d’oca. Invece con il proseguimento della lettura al posto del turbamento ho sentito crescere lo sconcerto: questa giovane istitutrice, alla cui cura sono affidatu Flora e Miles, inizia a dire che ci sono due fantasmi che vogliono corrompere e far fare cose terribili alla bambina e al bambino e a imbastire tutta una storia sulla precedente istitutrice e al maggiordomo, che infesterebbero la casa dopo essere mortu in circostanze misteriose. Solo che queste presenze vengono viste solo dall’istitutrice e non ci sono prove della loro esistenza, e nemmeno della storia torbida che dovrebbe giustificarne la presenza nella casa. So che l’incertezza riguardo alla ricostruzione degli eventi fa parte del fascino di questo romanzo, ma il mio cervello scettico è partito in quarta con la convinzione che la lucidità mentale dell’istitutrice stesse vacillando. A questo si aggiunge il fatto che il suo rapporto con Miles ha iniziato a sembrarmi più spaventoso di qualunque apparizione soprannaturale e c’è chi ipotizza che l’istitutrice sia una narratrice inaffidabile, i fantasmi una proiezione psicotica e una storia sui danni della repressione sessuale dell’epoca vittoriana. Immagino sia il tipo di romanzo al quale si dà un’interpretazione diversa in base alle proprie convinzioni e caratteristiche: essendo io molto terra, terra, non riesco a vederci granché di soprannaturale, ma, se lo avete letto, sono curiosa di sapere cosa ve n’è parso a voi. 6/10 I have very conflicted feelings about the book and did not overly like it, but it was certainly well done. Part of these problems stem from the first gothic scene. I must have misread the setting and could not understand why the main character was so scared. After that, I could not really believe her tale and thought she was prone to overreacting. Later, the setting is further explored and I finally realised how horrible that experience would have been. Despite this oversight, the ending is weak. Still, the prose is reasonable and storytelling strong. Will revisit James again, but not rushing off to read to him again. This is what happens when a realist tries to be a romantic. Ghost stories are irrational and melodramatic by nature, they need to be presented using theatrical tools that Henry James would have found beneath him. Instead we get what could be a gripping story buried under some grueling prose. It's exhausting. Edit: Virginia Woolf wrote about Henry James' ghost stories positively, and it's good to see what a contemporary (a genius contemporary at that) thought of it. She confirmed what I suspected, that by their time creepy castles and rainstorms had become cheesy and psychological terror was a novelty. But she also states that he put his ghosts in a scenario of the utmost realism, vividly described, so that it created a jarring effect on the reader. It's like if we suddenly saw HD footage of aliens, something impossible depicted utterly sincerely. The effect didn't work for me but it's good to understand another perspective. Eh, I could take this or leave it. The wording on most of the sentences seemed intentionally convoluted to me. I hope all of Henry James isn't written like this. (This is my first Henry James.) I love a good Gothic story, but this is not the one for me. *Book #135 I have read of the '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die'
Det rör sig om en av världslitteraturens otäckaste berättelser. Otäck inte bara för att det som händer är otäckt utan för att man inte riktigt vet vad som händer – och har hänt. Kuuluu näihin kustantajien sarjoihinThe Bodley Head Henry James (Volume XI) — 19 lisää Sisältyy tähän:Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle (tekijä: Henry James) (epäsuora) Henry James: five novels (Library of essential writers) (tekijä: Henry James) (epäsuora) The Folio Book of Short Novels (tekijä: Folio Society) The Pocket Reader (tekijä: Philip Van Doren Stern) Collected Stories: 1892-1910 (tekijä: Henry James) Ghost Stories of Henry James (tekijä: Henry James) The Short Novels of Henry James (tekijä: Henry James) XII Twelve Short Novels (tekijä: Thomas B. Costain) The Portable Henry James (tekijä: Henry James) Penny Dreadful Multipack Volume 7 – The Americans: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Mosses From An Old Manse, Owl Creek Bridge, The King In Yellow and 26 more (Illustrated) (tekijä: CreateSpace Multipack) Nursery Crimes (tekijä: Stefan Dziemianowicz) The Mystery Book (tekijä: H. Douglas Thomson) Tämä on uudelleenkerrottu:The Turn of the Key (tekijä: Ruth Ware) Tällä on sarjaan kuulumaton jatko-osaMukaelmia:The Innocents [1961 film] (tekijä: Jack Clayton) The Innocents (tekijä: William Archibald) The Turn of the Screw (tekijä: Diana Stewart) Innoitti:Florence and Giles (tekijä: John Harding) Tighter (tekijä: Adele Griffin) The Turning (tekijä: Francine Prose) A Jealous Ghost (tekijä: A. N. Wilson) Tutkimuksia:Tämän tekstillä on selostus:Sisältää opiskelijan oppaanPalkinnotNotable Lists
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HTML: The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly innocent children in an isolated country house. As the tale progresses she begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor. Or does she? The story is so ambivalent and eerie, such a psychological thriller, that few can agree on exactly what takes place. James masters "the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy" in this chilling Victorian classic. .Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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