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Henry James (1843-1916) is one of America's premier writers of fiction. His famous novella The Turn of the Screw (1898), concerning the governess of two small children who thinks that her charges are being haunted by ghosts, brilliantly illustrates James's theory of the horror story: to suggest rather than state horror. A true psychological thriller as well as an acute study of obsession, The Turn of the Screw leaves open whether the children are being "corrupted" by malevolent spirits or by their neurotic governess.
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Gary Williams
reviewed The Turn of the Screw and The Lesson of the Master on January 17, 2016
The Turn of the Screw and The Lesson of the Master
Stop everything. This book is supposed to be popular because of The Turn of the Screw. At least that is the one I had heard of.
First of all, let me mention what I love about Henry James. I love his portraits, the way he builds his characters, the way he describes every movement of their minds, the way he gets into what makes every one of them tick. Well, that is just what is absent in this story. Its a ghost story, and call me a skeptic, but I find all ghost stories a little silly. I mean, it has to be about something else, not just about "wickedness". Blame it on the century I live in, blame it on horror stories, blame it on Stephen King, blame it on the internet if you like. The fact is, the story is something I just could not quite get so involved in. And besides, since it is about ghosts, it was mostly theories, he-she did this, and that, thinking this and that, there is a lot of opinions and assumptions, but not much action.
Now let´s get to the second story. This is supposed to be the b side, the one no one really cares about. Well, this one to me, is more what I love about James. And there is an extra too. It´s about writers. And if there is something I love, it´s writers speaking of writing. The lesson of the master, is about the sacrifice one maybe should make if one wants to be a true, honest, real, big, artist. That is the question, and it is, to me, a good one. How much does conformity in your life affect your art? How is it that being happy and confortable maybe makes you want to write less, or be complacent, or easy.
The older writer in this book has been successful, but maybe he has stopped creating something real. He encounters the younger writer, and is impressed by his work, although he is starting out. And he begs him to sacrifice comfort, and the rest is just great.
Of course there is a woman involved, but I really loved everything about this story, and the question it leaves.
That is why I always think while I read his wonderful books, James is greatness.
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