Female portrait

The Anglo-American prose writer Henry James (1843-1916) is a recognized classic of world literature, a master of psychological analysis, a brilliant stylist and innovator, the author of more than twenty novels ("ambassadors", "Pigeon Wings", "Golden Chalice", "Europeans" and others ), Peru James also owns more than a hundred novels and stories, plays, a three -volume autobiography, travel and critical essays.
Born in New York, the writer spent most of his life in the Old World, mainly in England, where he died, having accepted British citizenship a year before his death. Having learned the lessons of Balzac, Gotorn, Ibsen and Turgenev, Henry James himself had a noticeable influence on the entire psychological prose of the 20th century, it is not by chance that he was called the predecessor of writers such as Conrad, Proust and Virginia Woolf.
"Female Portrait" belongs to the number of the most significant works by Henry James and is recognized as one of the greatest novels written in English. " By definition of the author, the “female portrait” is a novel about a woman challenging her fate. The story of a young American woman, with a thin and noble nature, lovely, internally independent and inquisitive, which arrives in Europe, having a firm belief that the world is full of inexhaustible opportunities, and female happiness is far from a successful marriage. ... In 1968 according to the world. The motifs of the novel was shot by a mini-series, its plot also formed the basis of Jane Campion "Portrait of a Lady" (1996) with Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich in the main roles