320 Henry James
The History of Literature
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The Complexity of Human Beings
If there was one person in the entire history of literature who stands for the notion that people are complicated creatures, human beings are complex animals it's probably Henry James. There's really no one quite like him in his body of work. And yet I think it goes too far or at least it might go too far to say that he makes all other novels except the very best, unreadable because his own novels are so famous for being unreadable. This is a boar hazy an idea which I kind of like we're gonna hear from boer hazy's later. He had some thoughts on James as well.
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