The Portrait of a Lady

what Isabel wants is to be initiated: even if it means being attracted to darkness | The Portrait of a Lady | Jane Campion / Henry James
Nicole Kidman / Isabel Archer: I think I have to begin by getting a general impression of life. I'm not afraid, you know | Jane Campion, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Caractère floconneux de l'avenir d'Isabelle. Pour James, la vie n'était pas forcément logique et il n'aurait sûrement pas souscrit à l'idée sartrienne que les êtres se confondent avec leurs actes
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million - a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable
I have left her en l'air | Henry James, Isabel Archer, The Portrait of a Lady
Jane Campion : l'excitation de découvrir la vérité des choses et des êtres, et le désir d'être aimée. Deux compagnons difficiles à concilier
Henry James: my young woman’s extraordinary meditative vigil | the best thing in the book: CHAPTER XLII | The Portrait of a Lady
Her mask had dropped for an instant | Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James, Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond: his hatred of her when he finds that she judges him, that she morally protests at so much that surrounds her

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