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Overview
"The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James. This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the story, the genuine article proves all too useless for his commercial purposes. The story portrays the unfortunate victims of a society in which reality and representation are closely intertwined in ways that make art a difficult project to untangle the two.
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- ISBN-13: 9781979253673
- ISBN-10: 1979253676
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: October 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.07 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.13 pounds
- Page Count: 32
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