The Collected Works of Henry James, Vol. 31 (of 36)

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Throne Classics

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491_9781662723568

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The Figure in the Carpet is a short story (sometimes considered a novella) by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. It is told in the first person; the narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention of all the authors works.The Figure in the Carpet has evaded definitive interpretation. In his book Henry James (1913), Ford Madox Ford wrote that after it was published, Jamess contemporaries set themselves on a quest for the Figure as an identifiable physical entity. In the preface to his A Choice of Kiplings Verse (1941), T. S. Eliot wrote, Nowadays, we all look for the Figure in the Carpet. It is possible that Jamess Figure is a palpable object that, like a talisman, facilitates interpretation of his own work.The narrator, a writer for a literary newspaper, prides himself on his astute review of Hugh Verekers latest novel. Vereker inadvertently dismisses his efforts, and then to repair his incivility, confides in the narrator that all critics have missed my little point, the particular thing Ive written my books most for, the thing for the critic to find, my secret, like a complex figure in a Persian carpet. The narrator racks his brains and, in desperation, tells his friend Corvick about the puzzle. Corvick and his novelist fiancée, Gwendolen, pursue the trick without success until Corvick, traveling alone in India, wires Gwendolen and the narrator Eureka! Immense. He refuses to tell Gwendolen the secret until they are married, and then dies in an accident. Since Gwendolen refuses to share her knowledge, the narrator speculates, the figure in the carpet [was] traceable or describable only for husbands and wives-for lovers supremely united. She remarries, and after her death, the narrator approaches her new husband to discover the secret. But the widowed husband is surprised and humiliated by the news of his late wifes great secret, a

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