Nestes tres relatos, ?As fillas do defunto coronel?, ?Estar no ceo? e ?A festa no xar-dín?, Katherine Mansfield, unha das escritoras máis innovadoras da literatura do século XX, arremete contra o concepto victoriano de familia, a vision romantica do amor e mesmo a falacia humanista sobre a coherencia e unidade do ser. Gran parte da obra desta escritora novacelandesa, que dedicou boa parte da sua vida a combater as restrictivas normas sociais e sexuais do momento, centrase en explorar as dualidades e ambiguidades agochadas na mente humana. As historias das protagonistas de As fillas do defunto coronel coinciden non so pola sua denuncia dunha sociedade perversamente deseñada para limitar as posibilidades de desenvolvemento das mulleres. Tres contos que reflicten de modo xeral a discriminacion a que se ven sometidas as mulleres na sociedade de principios de seculo, ao tempo que critica, de xeito implicito, a represion exercida desde institucions como a familia e o matrimonio; ademais de analizar os aspectos mais escuros e irracionais do inconsciente. Ao amosarnos sempre os seus personaxes femininos alienados perante o debate entre as imposicions externas e os seus desexos, Mansfield ataca os convencionalismos rixidos no que respecta aos papeis normais asignados as mulleres.
Katherine Mansfield This collection of short stories brings together some of Katherine Mansfield's best fiction, such as Bliss, At the Bay and The Garden-Party. It also charts her artistic development from the young, brash, exciting voice of The Swing of the Pendulum, through the mature, innovative style of Prelude and the structural perfection of The Doll's House, to the measured black humour of The Fly.
Els relats aplegats a Felicitat (publicada originàriament l´any 1920) contenen l´exaltació, el desencant i l´amargor de la quotidianitat en una xarxa finíssima de detalls aparentment banals, en descripcions i diàlegs d´una precisió astoradora.
Katherine Mansfields clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this collection represents the whole range of her writing. Moving, resonant, full of light and colour, they range from short sharp studies to longer, richer tales, encompassing her three major volumes Bliss, The Garden Party and In a German Pension, and fifteen tantalizing fragments of unfinished stories published after her tragic death, including Honesty, an intriguing tale of two bachelors, and The Doves Nest, an exquisite story of a widowed mother and her daughter in the Riviera who receive a mysterious gentleman caller. Graceful, delicate and quietly devastating, they observe apparently trivial incidents to create sensitive, often painful revelations of her characters inner lives.
Una de las escritoras más influyentes y carismáticas que revolucionó el relato corto.En «Fiesta en el jardín», una calle separa una alegre celebración en la mansión de los Sheridan de un terrible acc
Written during the final stages of her illness, 'The Garden Party and Other Stories' is full of a sense of urgency and was Katherine Mansfield's last collection to be published during her lifetime. The fifteen stories, many of them set in her native New Zealand, vary in length and tone from the opening story, 'At the Bay', a vivid, impressionistic evocation of family life, to the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed when she overhears two young lovers mocking her. Sensitive revelations of human behaviour, these stories reveal Mansfield's supreme talent as an innovator who freed the story from its conventions and gave it a new strength and prestige.
Katherine Mansfield's early collection, based on her own experiences in Germany, provides a delightful look at an unusual sensibility, and personifies Mansfield's determination to throw off the constraints of her Victorian upbringing.
