Author of Beltraffio (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Henry James | knygos.lt

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The Author of Beltraffio is a short story by Henry James, first published in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1884. The storyteller of the story, a to some degree credulous American admirer of English author Mark Ambient, visits the essayist at his home in Surrey. The storyteller is eager about Ambient's work, particularly his most recent novel Beltraffio. He meets Ambient's wonderful however cold spouse, his debilitated seven-year-old child Dolcino, and his bizarre sister Gwendolyn. He additionally discovers that Ambient's better half firmly detests her significant other's books and thinks of them as bad and agnostic.

Dolcino in the long run turns out to be substantially more sick. To "secure" him from what she sees as the noxious impact of his dad, Ambient's significant other retains the kid's medication.

Excerpt:
Much as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him - conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my country-people, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius. Moreover, the pleasure, if it should occur - for I could scarcely believe it was near at hand - would be so great that I wished to think of it in advance, to feel it there against my breast, not to mix it with satisfactions more superficial and usual.