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Впервые на русском — роман Колма Тойбина, автора «Волшебника» и «Дублина», книга — финалист Букеровской премии, лауреат Международной Дублинской премии IMPAC, «изысканное освещение внутреннего мира Генри Джеймса» (New York Times). Современный классик отдает дань уважения одному из столпов американской и мировой литературы, предтече модернизма. Выдающийся художник, мастер тонкого психологического портрета, показан во всей своей уязвимости и одиночестве — от провала постановки его пьесы «Гай Домвиль» в лондонском театре Друри-лейн, пока в соседнем театре публика рукоплещет премьере «Как важно быть серьезным» Оскара Уайльда, до визита в…

У романі Колма Тойбіна, живого класика англійської літератури, тонко переплетені біографічність і художній вимисел. Це пронизлива історія письменника, який народився в Америці наприкінці ХХ століття в інтелектуальній родині і покинув США, щоб поневірятися по Європі — жити в Парижі, Римі, Венеції, Лондоні, в середовищі найбільших художників і літераторів свого часу. Самотність і надія, провали і творчі злети, психологічна точність, емоційне напруження в описах інтимного життя. Недарма ця книга зібрала низку премій і захоплених відгуків критики.

Like Michael Cunningham in The Hours, Colm Tóibín captures the extraordinary mind and heart of a great writer. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of a man born into one of America's first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures the loneliness and the hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed those he tried to love. The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make a fortune, has failed on the London stage. The Master opens with this disaster and takes the writer through the next five years, as he moved to Rye in Sussex having found his dream retreat, and as he wrote his short masterpiece, The Turn of the Screw, in which he used so much of his own life as an exile in England and a member of one of the great eccentric American families. He is impelled by the need to work, and haunted by sections of his own past, including his failure to fight in the American Civil War, and the golden summer of 1865, and the death of…

Colm Toibin`s novel follows the life of Henry James during the last five years of the 19th century. Toibin tells the story of the great novelist obliquely by concentrating on events, both big and small, that had a large impact, such as the devastating failure of his play GUY DOMVILLE, his guilt over the suicide of a woman who loved him (and whom he rejected), and his comic but poignant problems with servants. Throughout, Toibin looks at James in relation to his work, finding connections between life and fiction and pondering their significance, in an attempt to decode the life of a man who was both very public--writing streams of letters…

Выдающийся художник, мастер тонкого психологического портрета, показан во всей своей уязвимости и одиночестве — от провала постановки его пьесы «Гай Домвиль» в лондонском театре Друри-лейн, пока в соседнем театре публика рукоплещет премьере «Как важно быть серьезным» Оскара Уайльда, до визита в провинциальный английский городок Рай, где Джеймс поселился на склоне лет, его брата, философа Уильяма Джеймса, и с многочисленными реминисценциями к ключевым эпизодам биографии прославленного добровольного изгнанника, который предпочел Лондон, Флоренцию и Париж родному Бостону…

Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose.

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 Tóibín 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.