Henry

Henry James’s novels are widely known (although they are not yet well-known in France), and his short stories are also an indispensable part of his creations (this kind of situation is not uncommon: people tend to prefer long stories to short stories, Compared with short articles, everyone prefers the huge volume of books. This does not mean that the length of the book is a measure of the merits of the novel, but because when reading a short work, the reader does not have enough time to forget a fact. : This is purely "literature" rather than "life.") Almost all of James's important novels have French translations, but only a quarter of his short stories have been translated. However, it is not simply the gap in quantity that has led me to the idea of ​​approaching another part of his work. This other part is a short story that occupies a special position in his creation. To a certain extent, his short stories are closely connected with theoretical research: James took this to put forward many major aesthetic problems in his creation and solved them, thus opening a special path for short stories. I walked along this road into an intricate and fascinating world