Roderick Hudson Henry James 9781504674744 Books
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When sculptor Roderick Hudson creates a work of genius, he is sent to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon sets down a path to self-destruction.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 9781504674744 Books
This emotional journey was unlike any other I have read about. Never knowing how it will end, one must be as patient as Rowland...;~)Product details
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Roderick Hudson Henry James 9781504674744 Books Reviews
Poignant and picturesque--the tortured artist in all his glory set among the hills of Rome, the villas of Florence and the mountains of Switzerland
great read
Could not get into it and finally gave up.
Not quite, but by comparison with late James, it's one his better novels.
THE AMERICAN, another early novel, and HUDSON are the best entry points for a fledgling reader of James' novels.
As time goes by, James slowly becomes more and more obscure, though with some wonderful interruptions to the pattern in the carpet, most notably THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, his greatest novel, THE PRINCESS CASAMASSIMA, and THE BOSTONIANS, major works of 19th century fiction. By the time he reaches THE AKWARD AGE sense is compromised by "subtlety", which reaches its zenith in THE GOLDEN BOWL, a novel that certainly should have been called MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, if Shakespeare hadn't already used the title.
TURN OF THE SCREW is a great novella, there are some wonderful short stories and literary criticism that ranges from excellent to trite. Otherwise, the place of Henry James in the history of literature amounts to a decline from talent and sense to formal fussiness and moral insignificance.
Early (1875) novel by James, still writing in an accessible, if florid, style which is a delight to read. All the themes are present here that the author would develop more fully in future work. The unconscious (I believe) homoerotic subtext gives this book a unique place in James's novels. But it is the writer's love affair with Italy that stays with the reader!
I am a great enthusiast for the beautiful and subtle
novels of Henry James, but somehow I had never
read this one. It was early James and so the style is simpler, less opaque than a novel like Wings of the Dove, but still such exquisite work.
I've embarked on a chronological reading of James (omitting Watch and Ward) and I can't agree that RH is any kind of great novel. I read the version which I presume is not a revised edition (?). The novel, rooted in the tag-end of the Romantic cult of the genius, centers on the relationship of Rowland (the prig) and Roderick (the genius) and the women they hopelessly adore. Both the genius and one of the women (the future Princess Cassamassima) are presented as monsters, but they are not terrible or tragic enough to be great ones. Both meet bad fates, but surely most readers react with relief, as the one is insufferable and the other is to be dealt with later in a novel of her own which hopefully will contain more of the fine subtlety and pathos we call Jamesian. The prig is tedious too -- the respected confidante of all, the patron of genius who is unable to live his own life and wealthy enough not to need to. If you are passionate about James, you must read this. If you are choosing a first, possibly only, James book? At this stage I would say The Portrait of a Lady. If you are picking one of the early books to read, The American is the most readable, with the best and best-matched characters, and the most suggestive of the tragic note of the later masterpieces.
This emotional journey was unlike any other I have read about. Never knowing how it will end, one must be as patient as Rowland...;~)
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