The narrator of a novella by this author rents a room in a Venetian palazzo and woos Tita Bordereau as part of a scheme to acquire the love letters addressed to Tita's aunt Juliana by an American poet.
This author declared that "It is art that makes life… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process," in a letter responding to a critic who had likened his novels to a dead kitten atop a church altar. In his edition of this author's letters, Leon Edel included two long-suppressed messages he addressed to his siblings during a delirium in which he thought he was Napoleon. He wrote that he was tormented by "the sense that I can't help you, see you, talk to you, touch you, hold you close and long" in a (*) homoerotic letter addressed to the Norwegian-American sculptor Hendrik Christian Andersen. The narrator of a novella by this author rents a room in a Venetian palazzo and woos Tita Bordereau as part of a scheme to acquire the love letters addressed to Tita's aunt Juliana by an American poet. For 10 points, name this author of The Aspern Papers, who exchanged many warm letters with his psychologist brother William.
This author declared that "It is art that makes life… and I know of no substitute
Henry James