Bøger af Katherine Mansfield

Mordant, challenging and inventive, Katherine Mansfield is one of the twentieth century's most accomplished short-story writers. Selected and introduced by Professor Meg Jensen.

La felicidad es evanescente. Al momento la sientes como una explosión y, al otro, puede transformarse en desazón o simple tristeza.Bertha lo tiene todo: es joven; ella y Harry, su marido; siguen tan enamorados como el primer día; tienen un bebé hermoso; viven en una casa amplia con jardín; y sus amigos son gente moderna e interesante.Pero la sensible Bertha siente que no encaja y que su felicidad es frágil. Lo nota en la manera en la que la niñera acapara a su hija, en la falta de humor de sus amigos de clase media, en la atracción irresistible que siente por Perla Fulton o en el rechazo que demuestra Harry hacia su nueva amiga.El peral ha florecido y van a celebrar una cena, ¿qué podría ensombrecer tanta felicidad?Katherine Mansfield (1888, Nueva Zelanda-1923, Francia) era el pseudónimo de Kathleen Beauchamp, una escritora y articulista neozelandesa.Llegó a ser reconocida por autores contemporáneos de la talla de Virginia Woolf, con la que compartía una mutua y enriquecedora rivalidad, y la cual llegaría a confesar que el único estilo literario que había envidiado en su vida era el de Katherine Mansfield.Se la considera adscrita al movimiento modernista. Cultivó sobre todo el relato corto, con historias que abordaban la vida cotidiana y la idiosincrasia de la clase media, siempre acompañadas de una velada reflexión existencialista.Quiso dedicarse a la música y, a pesar de su destreza con el violonchelo, sus padres nunca le permitieron ejercer profesionalmente. Se lanzó a la vida bohemia y tuvo numerosos amantes, pero hubo dos constantes en su vida: el editor John Middlenton Murray, con el que contrajo matrimonio, y la escritora Ida Barker, el amor de su vida. Vivió intensamente hasta que sucumbió a los treinta y cinco años por culpa de la tuberculosis. Su mayor ambición fue alcanzar la excelencia literaria y su obra, aunque breve, es considerada una pieza imprescindible de la literatura anglosajona.

¿Abrazar la vida moderna o salvar su matrimonio? En la sociedad cambiante de principios del siglo XX no hay tiempo para dilemas sentimentales.De regreso a la casa de campo para pasar el fin de semana, William imagina el cálido recibimiento de su familia. Pero la realidad es muy diferente: sus hijos solo esperan con impaciencia sus regalos y su esposa ha instalado en la casa a sus nuevos amigos bohemios, con los que prefiere pasar el rato antes que con su marido. La presencia persistente de la “nueva” Isabel y los intrusos, cuyas risas y conversaciones llenan los rincones de la casa, le recuerda la distancia cada vez mayor que los separa.¿Podrán William e Isabel entenderse y salvar su matrimonio en declive?Katherine Mansfield (1888, Nueva Zelanda-1923, Francia) era el pseudónimo de Kathleen Beauchamp, una escritora y articulista neozelandesa.Llegó a ser reconocida por autores contemporáneos de la talla de Virginia Woolf, con la que compartía una mutua y enriquecedora rivalidad, y la cual llegaría a confesar que el único estilo literario que había envidiado en su vida era el de Katherine Mansfield.Se la considera adscrita al movimiento modernista. Cultivó sobre todo el relato corto, con historias que abordaban la vida cotidiana y la idiosincrasia de la clase media, siempre acompañadas de una velada reflexión existencialista.Quiso dedicarse a la música y, a pesar de su destreza con el violonchelo, sus padres nunca le permitieron ejercer profesionalmente. Se lanzó a la vida bohemia y tuvo numerosos amantes, pero hubo dos constantes en su vida: el editor John Middlenton Murray, con el que contrajo matrimonio, y la escritora Ida Barker, el amor de su vida. Vivió intensamente hasta que sucumbió a los treinta y cinco años por culpa de la tuberculosis. Su mayor ambición fue alcanzar la excelencia literaria y su obra, aunque breve, es considerada una pieza imprescindible de la literatura anglosajona.

Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically short life. Many are set in the author's native New Zealand, others in England and the French Riviera. All are revelations of the unspoken, half-understood emotions that make up everyday experience - from the blackly comic 'The Daughters of the Late Colonel', and the short, sharp sketch 'Miss Brill', in which a lonely woman's precarious sense of self is brutally destroyed, to the vivid impressionistic evocation of family life in 'At the Bay'. 'All that I write,' Mansfield said, 'all that I am - is on the borders of the sea. It is a kind of playing.'

"Il n'y avait pas un pouce de place pour Lottie et Kézia dans la voiture. Quand Pat les posa au sommet du tas de bagages, elles oscillèrent."La famille Burnell déménage, mais il n'y plus de place pour les deux jeunes filles. Elles devront attendre dans la vieille maison, maintenant vide. Prélude fut publié pour la première fois 1918 dans le Hogarth Press et s'inspire du déménagement de la famille de Mansfield à Karori dans la banlieu de Wellington en 1893.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) est une auteure britannique originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande. Née à Wellington, elle part pour Londres en 1903 pour étudier au Queen's College. Bien qu'elle se destinait à devenir violoncelliste, elle participa au journal de son université, dont elle devint finalement l'éditrice. Après ses études, elle retourna en Nouvelle-Zélande, où elle se mit sérieusement à l'écriture et publia une série de nouvelles. Après deux ans, elle retourna à Londres, où elle tomba rapidement dans la vie de bohème. Son frère mourut durant la Grande Guerre, la rendant soudain nostalgique de son pays natale qu'elle avait dédaigné jusque-là. Elle mourut de tuberculose en France à l'âge de 34 ans.

"En somme, un temps idéal. Quand ils l'auraient fait faire sur commande, ils n'auraient pas pu avoir une journée plus parfaite pour leur garden-party. Pas de vent, l'air doux, le ciel sans nuage. Le bleu seulement était voilé d’une brume d’or léger, comme il l'est quelquefois au début de l’été."La famille Sheridan prépare une garden-party. L'hautaine Laura est chargée de diriger les travailleurs, tandis que sa sœur, Jose, teste le piano. C'est alors que la famille apprend le décès de leur voisin, Mr Scott. Faut-il annuler la réception ?Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) est une auteure britannique originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande. Née à Wellington, elle part pour Londres en 1903 pour étudier au Queen's College. Bien qu'elle se destinait à devenir violoncelliste, elle participa au journal de son université, dont elle devint finalement l'éditrice. Après ses études, elle retourna en Nouvelle-Zélande, où elle se mit sérieusement à l'écriture et publia une série de nouvelles. Après deux ans, elle retourna à Londres, où elle tomba rapidement dans la vie de bohème. Son frère mourut durant la Grande Guerre, la rendant soudain nostalgique de son pays natale qu'elle avait dédaigné jusque-là. Elle mourut de tuberculose en France à l'âge de 34 ans.

Recovering from a miscarriage and a bad marriage, author Katherine Mansfield, barely 21, wrote these excellent short stories around the time she was staying in a spa town in Germany. With wry humour, she depicts a German upper middle class defined by their rude habits, but she also touches upon the hard life of servants and the oppression of women. The latter distinguishes her writing from that of Jane Austen, but the way in which Mansfield mocks the stiff-upper-lipped ladies and Barons of these stories and zeroes in on character quirks is particularly Jane Austen-like, and just as satisfying as in `Pride and Prejudice‘.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

"There was not an inch of room for Lottie and Kezia in the buggy. When Pat swung them on top of the luggage they wobbled; the grandmother‘s lap was full and Linda Burnell could not possibly have held a lump of a child on hers for any distance." The seemingly perfect Burnell family is moving from one house to another, and on the surface, everything appears idyllic. But as the story develops, the tension grows, threating to explode and expose their true nature. `Prelude‘ (1922) is evidence of Katherine Mansfield‘s short fiction genius, and it was the first short story that Virginia Wolf commissioned for her publishing house. Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was short story writer and poet from New Zealand, who settled in England at the age of 19. Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence were among her literary friends and admirers. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 34.

Nancy (For Nancy) is a chapbook that explores grief and healing after the loss of a loved one. This collection of poems and vignettes confronts pain and depression, wanders through memory, and ultimately offers closure. Nancy (For Nancy) is a book for anyone who has ever lost someone. It is a book that lets you know you're not alone in your feelings and aims to provide some sort of comfort to everyone, at any point in their healing journey.

Although Katherine Mansfield was closely associated with D.H. Lawrence and something of a rival of Virginia Woolf, her stories suggest someone writing in a different era and in a vastly different English. Her language is as transparent as clean glass, yet hovers on the edge of poetry. Her characters are passionate men and women swaddled in English reserve -- and sometimes briefly breaking through. And her genius is to pinpoint those unacknowledged and almost imperceptible moments in which those people's relationships -- with one another and themselves -- change forever. This collection includes such masterpieces as "e;Prelude,"e; "e;At the Bay"e; "e;Bliss,"e; "e;The Man Without a Temperament"e; and "e;The Garden Party"e; and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHKatherine Mansfield's 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.

'And again, as always, he had the feeling he was holding something that never was quite his - his. Something too delicate, too precious, that would fly away once he let go.'Three sharp and powerful short stories from Katherine Mansfield, one of the genre's all-time masters.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923). Mansfield's works available in Penguin Classics are The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield and The Garden Party and Other Stories.

Katherine Mansfields noveller var ofta självbiografiska. Hennes mest kända novell, Dockskåpet, handlar om två systrar som till sina klasskamraters stora förtjusning får ett eftertraktat dockskåp. Systrarna inser snart att klasskamraternas avund kan utnyttjas på de mest raffinerade sätt, och en grym lek tar sin början…I originalöversättning av Märta LindqvistKatherine Mansfield föddes 1888 på Nya Zeeland men sökte sig till Europa där hon blev vän med bland andra Virginia Woolf och hennes litterära karriär tog fart. Katherine Mansfield kan sägas vara en föregångare till nobelpristagaren Alice Munro.

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Mariage à la mode est une nouvelle de Katherine Mansfield publiée pour la première fois en 1921 dans The Sphere. Il raconte lhistoire de William et de sa femme Isabel. Normalement, William achète des friandises pour ses enfants, sachant que sa femme ne veut pas quil les gâte avec dautres cadeaux, mais cette fois-ci, il leur rapportera des fruits. La famille vient de quitter Londres pour la campagne, et quand le mari rejoint sa femme, il la trouve fort changée. Cette dernière sest entichée damis bohèmes et elle trouve maintenant son mari ennuyeux et bourgeois. La tension monte.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) est une auteure britannique originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande. Née à Wellington, elle part pour Londres en 1903 pour étudier au Queens College. Bien quelle se destinait à devenir violoncelliste, elle participa au journal de son université, dont elle devint finalement léditrice. Après ses études, elle retourna en Nouvelle-Zélande, où elle se mit sérieusement à lécriture et publia une série de nouvelles. Après deux ans, elle retourna à Londres, où elle tomba rapidement dans la vie de bohème. Son frère mourut durant la Grande Guerre, la rendant soudain nostalgique de son pays natale quelle avait dédaigné jusque-là. Elle mourut de tuberculose en France à lâge de 34 ans.

´Au matin, très tôt. Le soleil nétait pas encore levé et la baie toute entière était cachée par un brouillard blanc venu de la mer. Les grandes collines recouvertes de brousse, au fond, étaient submergées.`Sur la baie est une nouvelle de Katherine Mansfield publiée pour la permière fois en 1922 dans le London Mercury. Cest lune des œuvres les plus accomplies de lauteure et un excellent exemple dimpressionnisme littéraire. On y retrouve Kezia et Lottie, deux caractères qui figurent aussi dans ´Prélude`. En effet, cétait son intention de combiner ´Sur la baie`, ´Prélude`, ´La Garden Party` et ´La Maison de poupée` en un roman nommé ´Karori`.Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) est une auteure britannique originaire de Nouvelle-Zélande. Née à Wellington, elle part pour Londres en 1903 pour étudier au Queens College. Bien quelle se destinait à devenir violoncelliste, elle participa au journal de son université, dont elle devint finalement léditrice. Après ses études, elle retourna en Nouvelle-Zélande, où elle se mit sérieusement à lécriture et publia une série de nouvelles. Après deux ans, elle retourna à Londres, où elle tomba rapidement dans la vie de bohème. Son frère mourut durant la Grande Guerre, la rendant soudain nostalgique de son pays natale quelle avait dédaigné jusque-là. Elle mourut de tuberculose en France à lâge de 34 ans.

"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. Into the world you sent her, mother, Fashioned her body of coral and foam, Combed a wave in her hair's warm smother, And drove her away from home. In the dark of the night she crept to the town And under a doorway she laid her down, This little blue child in the foam-fringed gown. And never a sister and never a brother To hear her call, to answer her cry. Her face shone out from her hair's warm smother Like a moonkin up in the sky. She sold her corals; she sold her foam; Her rainbow heart like a singing shell Broke in her body: she crept back home. Peace, go back to the world, my daughter, Daughter, go back to the darkling land; There is nothing here but sad sea water, And a handful of sifting sand. The Sea-Child 1911 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.

''They could not have had a more perfect day for a garden party if they had ordered it'' A windless, warm day greets the Sheridan family on the day of their garden party. As daughter Laura takes the reins on party preparations the news of a neighbour''s demise casts a cloud over the host and threatens the entire celebration. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers'' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.