The beast in the jungle/La tigre nella giungla
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788804370604 (8804370602)
Publish date: January 1st 1993
Publisher: Oscar Mondadori
Pages no: 141
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Drama,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Queer,
Portuguese Literature
Briefly; it’s a novella after all.Apparently, enough time had lapsed after reading Proustitute’s fine review and Lee’s (perhaps, due to the good news of his new daughter) and Jesse’s, that I’d completely forgotten the story/novella’s subtext. All well and good. What remained was seeing three review...
James is my second favorite writer, after Proust, of course. “The Beast in the Jungle” is probably his most masterful tale—novella or short story, you decide—and it’s one that I’ve read at least twenty times. While many of my readings have been colored by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s now canonical essay ...