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Cover of Hotel Iris

Hotel Iris

✍ Scribed by Yoko Ogawa


Publisher
ePubLibre
Year
1996
Tongue
Spanish
Weight
130 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


Publicada en 1877, esta irónica «nouvelle» es un modelo del género. El mismo Henry James así lo indicaba en sus cuadernos: «La concisión de “Cuatro encuentros” (…) ¡eso es hacia lo que debo tender!». La historia de la señorita Spencer, cuyo sueño es viajar a Europa y lo consigue, y cómo se resuelve su regreso a Estados Unidos constituye una metáfora de muchas de las aspiraciones humanas. El retrato de la protagonista está subordinado a la perturbadora seducción que ejercen sobre el lector el carácter ilusorio de su obsesión y el posterior misterio de la renuncia. Sabido es que James utilizaba sus relatos como laboratorio para su producción novelesca, y aquí un sutil juego de claroscuros recorre la obra, haciéndonos pasar de la luminosidad inicial a la oscuridad final, que mucho nos recuerda los finales de dos grandes novelas del autor, «Washington Square» y «Retrato de una dama».


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