quarta-feira, março 07, 2007

'A SENSE OF EVIL RELIGIOUS IN ITS INTENSITY'

«In all writers there occurs a moment of crystallization when the dominant theme is plainly expressed,when the private universe becomes visible even to the least sensitive reader. (...)
It is less easy to find such a crystallization in the works of James, whose chief aim was always to dramatize, who was more than usually careful to exclude the personal statement, but I think we make take the sentence in the scenario of The Ivory Tower, in which James speaks of v'the black and merciless things that are behind great possessions', as an expression of the vruling fantasy which drove him to write: a sense of evil religious in its intensity.»

Graham Greene, num ensaio sobre o seu mestre Henry James

(à natural atenção do Rogério Casanova)

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