The Figure In The Carpet Characters

The figure in the carpet might take on another twist or two but the sentence had virtually been written.

The figure in the carpet characters.

Theodora bosanquet henry james at work university of michigan press 2007. Le roy phillips 1917 part of the first american issue of the uniform tales of henry james. It is told in the first person. He confides this news to two people.

Uses the new york edition text. Except in the case of the figure in the carpet that guy is the author himself in gleeful frustration over the density of literary critics. The writer might go down to his grave. In a gesture of compensation one supposes vereker confides to the narrator that his fictions are all linked by a single idea or scheme that no critic has ever noticed but that is the very secret.

His best friend and rival a fellow critic named george corvick and gwendolen an aspiring novelist. She was the person in the world to whom as if she had been his favoured heir his continued existence was least of a need. The narrator whose name is never revealed meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the author s works. The figure in the carpet is a short story sometimes considered a novella by american writer henry james first published in 1896.

In a world where most of the characters speak comparatively plainly and directly unlike the later novels and tales the figure in the carpet is not clotted with a dense structure of conflicting. The main character is a the central premise of this story a desperate search for the cryptic essence of one authors works reminds me in particular of gene wolfe. Macmillan co 1922. The figure in the carpet boston.

Spurred on by this the narrator sets out to discover what the figure in the carpet really is that will unlock the secrets of vereker s work.