Gracias a las recientes investigaciones literarias, hoy tenemos acceso a los textos originales de Mansfield y podemos asegurar que no escribía diarios como nos hizo creer su marido, sino cuadernos en los que aparecen fragmentos de cuentos, borradores de cartas, recetas, listas de gastos, poemas, entradas de diario. La mayoria de estos textos ineditos en castellano aparecen por primera vez en Sopa de ciruela, traducidos directamente de las transcripciones de los mas de cincuenta cuadernos que Mansfield dejo tras su muerte, a los que se suman una seleccion de cartas, textos encontrados en papeles sueltos, cuentos publicados en diversas revistas, apuntes de un viaje por el interior de Nueva Zelanda y algunas recetas de cocina.Sopa de ciruela se inspira en la comida como refugio, en la escritura como alimento vital; y la cuidada seleccion de estos textos nos permite conocer una faceta oculta e impostergable de la obra de Katherine Mansfield.
Coletanea com tres contos escritos por Katherine Mansfield, cujas protagonistas so mulheres em diferentes etapas da vida: infancia, juventude e vida adulta. Em cada momento, elas enfrentam as circunstancias geradas pela fase da vida mas tambem aguçadas pelas questes de genero, ja presentes desde a mais tenra idade. No se pode deixar de notar que as situaçes enfrentadas, muitas vezes desagradaveis, foram geradas pelo relacionamento com alguma pessoa do sexo masculino, que deslancha as situaçes a serem navegadas pelas tres mulheres de Mansfield.
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.
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 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.
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.
Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfields Something Childish and Other Stories captures the vulnerability of raw emotion in its most charged state.Inviting readers to reflect upon our social experiences, this collection constitutes a deep dive into what it truly means to be human. Something Childish and Other Stories is the ideal companion for fans of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook.
Instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form, Katherine Mansfields Bliss and Other Stories captures the accuracy of raw emotion and social experience. Inviting readers to reflect upon our most vulnerable of states, this collection constitutes a deep dive into what it means to be human. Featuring a selection of new poetry and short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paul Morris, as inspired by Mansfield herself.Bliss and Other Stories is the ideal companion for fans of Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams fans of The Notebook.
