February Salon
It's taken me forever to finish this month's post for Katherine's Turn of the Century Salon . Sorry Katherine! But here it is, and it's about Henry James' Portrait of a Lady , which squeaks in under the wire, having been written in 1880, but really--who is more turn of the century than James? Do you like the author's writing style? I don't mind Henry James' writing style, but I don't love it. The man did like a good long sentence! For the most part I enjoyed reading his prose medium-well. I didn't hate it, I liked reading it, but I didn't love it either. I often felt like even though I was getting a lot of words that described Isabel and her actions, I was not truly getting inside her. I read this 800-page novel about her, but I didn't feel like I knew her well. I don't know if that was on purpose; maybe James didn't mean for me to know her well? Since it was a "portrait" perhaps it was supposed to b...