22 mai 2013
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Jeanne Delbaere-Garant, « A Tragedy of Error (1864). Lame Husbands and Unfaithful Wives », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.930
“It was the act of a false woman”…“A false woman? No, it was the act of any woman—” James was twenty-one when he wrote A Tragedy of Error, a little story set in a French sea-port town. It has little literary value, but it is James’s first published tale and already reveals some of the characteristics of his later works. It is also an interesting document on the psychology of the young James. Hortense Bernier receives a letter from her lame husband, who has been travelling abroad and who quite...