Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as a weapon to torment each other in their ongoing, internecine war. Eventually the parents both remarry, and it becomes clear that the new spouses care more for Maisie than her own parents. Beale and Ida soon embark on a series of extramarital affairs, leaving Maisie in the care of the new stepparents, who begin their own affair with each other. What Maisie Knew is a remarkable tour de force from James’s late-middle period, and an insightful look at the psyche of a child who is thrust into the adult world of drama and failed relationships.
Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as a weapon to torment each other in their ongoing, internecine war. Eventually the parents both remarry, and it becomes clear that the new spouses care more for Maisie than her own parents. Beale and Ida soon embark on a series of extramarital affairs, leaving Maisie in the care of the new stepparents, who begin their own affair with each other. What Maisie Knew is a remarkable tour de force from James’s late-middle period, and an insightful look at the psyche of a child who is thrust into the adult world of drama and failed relationships.
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Tras dos estancias en Europa, Henry James (Nueva York, 1843 –Sussex, Inglaterra, 1916) publicó en 1875, su primera novela, Roderick Hudston. Más tarde, vivió durante dos años en París, donse conoció a alagunos de los grandes maestros europeos de la época (Turgenev, Flaubert y Zola), que influyeron decisivamente en su estilo. En 1876, tras escribir El americano, se estableció en Inglaterra, donde publicó sus obras más conocidas: Daisy Miller (1879), Washington Square (1880), El sitio de Londres (1883), Los papeles de Aspern (1888), Lo que Maisie sabía (1897) y Otra vuelta de tuerca (1898), en las que demostró su habilidad para mostrar la lucha entre deseo y convención, y aportó una visión crítica de la moral americana. Para muchos Henry James es el precursor de la novela psicológica moderna y la principal influencia de autores tan importantes como James Joyce o Virginia Woolf
