Katherine Mansfield Libri
Katherine Mansfield fu una pioniera scrittrice di racconti modernista che ridefinì il genere. Abbandonando le trame convenzionali, si concentrò sulla cattura di momenti cruciali, stati d'animo e vite interiori dei suoi personaggi. Fortemente influenzata da Anton Čechov, Mansfield sviluppò uno stile distintivo, ricco di immagini naturali e potente simbolismo. Le sue storie esplorano temi universali come l'isolamento umano, i ruoli sociali e la tensione tra idealismo e realtà, consolidando la sua eredità come figura letteraria di spicco della sua epoca.
Libri di una sera: In una pensione tedesca
- 96pagine
- 4 ore di lettura
Epistolario
Le lettere a John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922
A beautiful new hardback edition of Katherine Mansfield's best stories. Katherine Mansfield was the only writer Virginia Woolf envied. Mansfield transformed the short story genre with her work, creating stories miraculous in their intensity yet seemingly so simple. The shift of a heart, the beat of a moment, the changing of the light: in these stories emotional universes are contained within glimpses. Mansfield only lived to the age of 34 but in that time wrote stories true to her indomitable spirit. A hundred years on from her death, Mansfield's biographer, Claire Harman, has created this new selection to show us the master of the short story form in full flight. WITH A FOREWORD BY HELEN SIMPSON AND INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE HARMAN 'There is something rapturous about her work...she has the power to distil the apparently inconsequential into frozen moments laden with significance' Guardian 'Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people' Katherine Mansfield
“Damn Katherine! Why can’t I be the only woman who knows how to write?” Virginia Woolf Katherine Mansfield was, most of all, a passionate spirit. Her poems are sometimes traditional, sometimes outbursts of emotion, sometimes experiments akin to prose poems. In all she manages a strange alchemy; ordinary words are somehow transformed into powerful arrows of meaning. These 69 poems were collected together and published in 1923, just after Katherine Mansfield’s death. Many had never been published before; others only in magazines. John Middleton Murry explains in his introductory note that they are effusions of what he calls her ‘exquisite spirit,’ the uniqueness of which guarantees Mansfield her permanent place in twentieth century literature.
