The Master

Name: The Master
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Colm Toibin
ISBN: 9780330421515

Colm Toibin

21/01/2005
Picador

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de The Master par Colm Toibin

Résumé

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.