By Henry James
Un joven crítico y editor fascinado con l. a. obra del difunto poeta Jeffrey Aspern se entera de que Juliana Bordereau, una de sus musas, vive aún, anciana y aislada, en un palazzo veneciano. Convencido de que conserva cartas y fabric inédito del poeta, se acerca a ella camuflando sus intenciones y consigue que lo acepte como inquilino. El joven se introduce entonces en un mundo agónico y fantasmagórico, volcado exclusivamente en el recuerdo, que l. a. orgullosa anciana habita con l. a. única compañía de una sobrina suya, una mujer ya madura que no parece haber conocido otra cosa que los angeles reclusión y el legado de un esplendor desaparecido: «Vivimos en un silencio aterrador –dice–. No sé cómo pasan los días. No tenemos vida.» los angeles presencia del joven trae un poco de «vida» a su relegada existencia, aunque el descubrimiento de que las razones de éste no son desinteresadas ni inocentes dé un turbio e inesperado vuelco a l. a. situación. l. a. idolatración del pasado y l. a. necesidad de protegerlo envuelven a los personajes en una trama maestra de ambigüedades y bajezas, en los angeles que el romanticismo y el materialismo se funden en una relación misteriosamente dialéctica. Los papeles de Aspern (1888) es, junto con Otra vuelta de tuerca, quizá l. a. nouvelle más famosa y emblemática de Henry James.
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I don’t know, Africanus, why people say that Socrates rejected all discussions of this kind and was concerned only with human life and morality. Plato is the fullest source we have about him, and in his books Socrates frequently speaks in such a manner that when he discusses morals, virtues, and even public life he seeks to link them in the manner of Pythagoras with numbers and geometry and harmony. : True enough; but I’m sure that you have heard, Tubero, that after Socrates’ death Plato traveled first to Egypt for the sake of study, then to Italy and Sicily to learn the discoveries of Pythagoras; and that he spent a great deal of time with Archytas of Tarentum and Timaeus of Locri, and purchased the papers of Philolaus; and that since at that time Pythagoras had a great reputation in that region, he devoted himself to the Pythagoreans and their studies.
Particularly (for Cicero) the chapters by T. P. Wiseman on the period –. The most influential and eloquent modern treatment of the end of the Republic is R. Syme, The Roman Revolution (Oxford, ); also admirable are the various studies by P. A. Brunt, including Social Conflicts in the Roman Republic (London, ) and the articles collected in The Fall of the Roman Republic and Related Essays (Oxford, ). For the actual workxxxi Bibliography ings of Roman civic life, there is also the detailed study by C.
Cambridge, ). The religious laws of Book are closely related to Cicero’s discussions of Roman religion in On the Nature of the Gods and On Divination; two useful introductions to various aspects of these texts are P. Brunt, ‘‘Philosophy and Religion in the Later Republic,’’ in Philosophia Togata, and J. Linderski, ‘‘Cicero and Roman Divination,’’ Parola del Passato (), –. xxxv Text and Translation The translation of On the Commonwealth is based on C. ), M. , Leipzig, ), and (for the continuous portions of the palimpsest and the Dream of Scipio) J.
