Biography
Henry James belonged to the number of prolific American writers and became the author of 20 novels, hundreds of stories and 12 plays. Its works in the classic style, as well as previous work modisms often become filmms and cause readers.Childhood and youth
Henry James was born in New York on April 15, 1843 in the family of immigrants from Europe, carriers of Irish and Scottish roots. His mother, who had a fortune, brought up numerous offspring, and father, heir to banker, was fond of philosophy and religion.
Happing as theologians and speaker, the head of the family often traveled to Europe and visited Geneva and London, accompanied by his wife and children. Therefore, private tutors were engaged in the initial education of the boy, and his abilities from an early age admired teachers.
In childhood, Henry, who suffered from stout, penetrating the cultural atmosphere of Paris and miraculously got rid of the speech lack, having learned French. Since then, he in the original read the books of Honor de Balzak and with the filing of an emotional mother he recorded thoughts and feelings in the diary.
In the early 1860s, the Senior Brother James, the future psychologist, entered the University of Boston, and the family moved to him. Henry arranged to school rights, but he found boring this discipline and, making the first steps in an independent biography, began to study writing skill.
Having friendly with writers and critics, the young man created the text of the theater formation, which was published by Miss Maggie Mitchell in Fanchon The Cricket. And then the story of the "Tragedy of Errors" appeared, and the suggestive author of the author was invited to write materials on the order of magazines and newspapers.
Having earned money on book reviews, Henry went to travel in Europe and met with such creators as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. And then he settled in London and began writing female novels, but at that time publishers did not printed any of the works.
Personal life
The personal life of the American Writer is still disputes, and supporters of different theories converge only that he was a bachelor. A number of biographers who received access to letters and photographs from the family archive were attributed to him with men and openly called a homosexual.Books
In the 1860-1870, James was a member of the gentlemen club and read his own works in a circle of friends and friends. As a result, the English editorial company released the Roderik Hudson Roman, which critics and readers found an entertaining history.
Working in the genre of realistic prose, Henry became a follower of Gustava Flaubert and to be closer to the literary idol, moved from London to Paris. There he became friends with the writers Emil Zol and Ivan Turgenev and after the publication of a number of works approved American prestige in Europe.
The work of this classic period consisted of a series of love works: "Washington Square", "Daisy Miller", "Confidence" and "Women's Portrait". And then writing attention switched to the study of progressive phenomena, and this led to a sharp crisis that lasted over five years.
Despite this, the Bibliography of James was replenished with such writings as "Bostonians", "Tragic Muse", "Letters of Asper" and "Screw Turning". In them, the author raised questions of the social and social revolution, as well as the interpenetration and confrontation of the cultures of the old and new light.
In trying to succeed at readers, the author took up drama, but the audience did not appreciate any of the plays. However, these literary experiments helped the formation of a new style, thanks to which Henry thoughted to put a cross on his own work.
Books published in the 1900s were distinguished by a minimum of characters, as well as psychologism and dramaticness, through permanent tangled plot. The language of dialogues and artistic descriptions began to be saturated with complex structures that thoroughly transmitted appearance, smell, sound and color.
It had to taste to critics, prevented by the late books of the author and allocated such works as "wings of doves" and "ambassadors". Thanks to the reviews of authoritative specialists, Henry James learned all over the world, and famous filmmakers made art films from novels.
Death
February 28, 1916 in English and American newspapers wrote that the writer Henry James died. The cause of the death of a well-known novelist was a violation of cerebral circulation and stroke, which happened in the house located in the County of Sussex.Bibliography
- 1875 - "Rodrick Hudson"
- 1877 - "American"
- 1878 - "Europeans"
- 1880 - "Washington Square"
- 1881 - "Women's portrait"
- 1886 - "Bostonians"
- 1890 - "Tragic Muse"
- 1899 - "Uncomfortable Age"
- 1901 - "Ambassadors"
- 1902 - "Wings of Dove"
- 1904 - "Golden Vase"