The narrator of The Aspern Papers is so insufferable , one of James's great prigs, spoiled egotistical and indifferent to the needs and feelings of others. He has only this in his favor: unlike many, most, James heroes he at least has a profession and is devoted to it maybe too much so. He will do anything to get his hands on the eponymous papers, even dissemble and trifle w the feelings of an innocent other, Tita Bordelerau (sp?). I haven't read The A papers in
many years but I suspect or at least hope that the narrator will get what's coming to him, the he will actually fall in love with TIta and that she will break his heart and he will learn something about ethical values - he seems so genteel and well mannered but is in fact a liar and a boor, whether he knows it or not. Devotion in the service of art beauty and truth is admirable but destroying the heart of another is contemtuous. Will he learn that? Will James?
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