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La vie en James.(ESSAY)(Henry James Goes to Paris)(Book review)

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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20070701
Author:Holleran, Andrew

Henry James Goes to Paris

by Peter Brooks

Princeton University Press. 255 pages, $24.95

THE CITY we most associate with Henry James is London, but when, at the age of 32, James left his family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he moved to Paris. It wasn't just that James was fluent in French. Paris was where the serious novelists were. One of his literary heroes, Ivan Turgenev, was living there. Turgenev introduced James to Flaubert, and Flaubert introduced James to Zola, Maupassant, Daudet, and the Goncourt brothers. The thesis of Henry James Goes to Paris is that, while ...

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