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Title: The Portrait of a Lady: An Authoritative Text Henry James and the Novel Reviews and Criticism (A Norton Critical Edition) by Henry James, Robert D. Bamberg ISBN: 0-393-96646-1 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.50

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: A reader
Comment: Otra interesante historia destrozada por Henry James. Páginas y páginas de descripción que no llevan a ninguna parte. Si te gusta el arte de escribir no lo leas. Lo que puede decirse en una frase James lo dirá en dos (por lo menos) y siempre una de ellas será la absurda repetición de la primera con otras palabras. Las descripciones no son nunca concretas, co evocan nada en la mente del lector, carecen de inmediatez.
Los personajes interesantes, pero se nos habla demasiado de ellos, se intenta que los veamos con los ojos del escritor sin que su punto de vista se nos justifique. Por ejemplo, no entiendo por que la protagonista es considerada tan inteligente por el narrador, lo unico que hace es heredar una fortuna y dedicarse a viajar por Europa, como tantas otras jovenes adineradas de su epoca. Pero no parece que se haya dado demasiada cuenta de lo que ha visto, no pasan de ser visitas turisticas. Por lo demas a los malos del cuento se les ve venir de lejos y ella parece ser la unica en no darse cuenta.
Ultima queja: los dialogos de Henry James no son mas que preguntas y respuestas ingeniosas, pero tan artificiales que en seguida te das cuenta de que cada pregunta no es mas que una posibilidad de que otro persunaje luzca su ingenio en su respuesta.
En conjunto una novela interesante, sobre todo en cuanto a como esta estructurada y en cuanto a la historia que plantea.

Rating: 5
Summary: Another superb Norton edition
Comment: Like all Norton Critical Editions, this one is THE edition for serious readers. In the Norton Critical edition of The Portrait of a Lady, editor Robert D. Bamberg has done a marvelous and amazing job in the "Textual Variants" section, in which he has meticulously identified every change from the First Edition of 1881 to the New York Edition (wherein James heavily revised much of his work) in 1908. (The Norton Critical edition reproduces the 1908 New York edition; the original is difficult to find.)

Bamberg's footnotes, which conveniently appear on the page on which the respective text occurs, are economical, straightforward, and illuminating. Bamberg has also chosen suitable texts for the "Henry James and the Novel" section, as well as the "Contemporary Reviews and Criticism" section (in which "Contemporary" means contemporary to our current time, not the book's publication. "Henry James and the Novel" has James's own comments on The Portrait of a Lady and its writing from a variety of his own writing self-criticism.)

The Portrait of a Lady has often been cited as James' best novel. It is a careful and passionate study in one woman's struggle for independence in a world of obligations, pressures, and encumberances.

The Norton Critical Edition is THE place to start for any dedicated, serious reading. However, like the other Norton Critical editions, this one has Bible-thin paper and very close, compact type. If you're looking for something a little more readable and lighter, the Modern Library paperback edition is the way to go. Its introduction and endnotes, while nowhere near as comprehensive as the Norton Critical edition, are sufficient.

Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Henry James
Comment: I've come back to this novel after reading it in graduate school thirty years ago, and I remain awed by James's genius. His ability to depict the nuance of social interaction is unparalleled. His psychological understanding of his characters is almost uncanny. Add to that perhaps the most complex, devious, sociopathic villains in literature -- Madame Merle and Gilbert Osmond -- and you have a gripping story of greed, deception, and innocence lost. "The Portrait of a Lady" represents the true epitome of the 19th-century English novel.

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