Henry James’s Enigmas: Turning the Screw of Eternity?

Inscribed at the threshold of several cultures, James’s literary work continues to be provocative today, as much by the suggestion of a hidden design, concealed from the reader’s view, as by the successive interpretations to which it has given rise. This study explores the ＂gems＂ that spangle the ＂carpet＂ of his prose.

Jean Perrot is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at Paris University. His main publications include Mythe et littérature sous le signe des jumeaux (Paris, 1976), Art baroque, art d’enfance (Nancy, 1991), Le Secret de Pinocchio. Carlo Collodi et George Sand (Paris, 2001), Du jeu, des enfants et des livres à l’heure de la mondialisation (Paris, 2011). He has edited Les Métamorphoses du conte for P.I.E Peter Lang in 2004.