Selected Tales PDF Henry James

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The ironically named Monarchs go on to prove inadequate models, and serve momentarily as servants before being finally bought off and dismissed from the narrator’s sight. The social instability of which they are a symptom compounds the challenge of representation which the artist faces, and the story delights in the paradoxes and contradictions which such a challenge throws up. So the distinguished appearance of Major Monarch ‘would have struck me as a celebrity if celebrities often were striking’. The narrator learns that ‘a figure with a good deal of frontage was, as one might say, almost never a public institution’. The tale begins in a comic confusion over who – artist or models – is going to pay whom. The narrator declares a Wildean ‘preference for the represented subject over the real one: the defect of the real one was so apt to be a lack of representation’. Artistic drawings of Mrs Monarch turn out, topsy turvy, to l

• Book Name: Selected Tales pdf
• Author Name Henry James
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2010

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