never heard of Katherine Mansfield before getting this book in a lot of the Great Writers Library dirt cheap, and commanding my reading over the next year or so.
That is nothing less than a crime, as far as I'm concerned,
Apparently, this woman is wellknown in her home country of New Zealand and her last countryofresidence France where she died of TB at, as well as most points between.
It's small wonder to me, though, that a poorly educated American like myself was never introduced to her: she was a cool, independent, literate woman who wrote stories exploring the more tender sides of the human experience all things that fail to endear writers to the mass American audience.
This book is a reprint of a collection from the 's, containing a dozen or so tales of varying length and direction, Most of her stories here fail to follow any real narrative thread, but instead paint vivid if often grim pictures of emotional life at the time thes/s mostly.
What shocks more often than not is just how familiar the feelings of isolation, alienation and of course bliss sound reading them nearlyyears later.
I'll definitely be looking for more Mansfield, and I recommend her to anyone who's still reading this far! El título es engañoso, de los cuentos más tristes que he leído ltBu kitabı okuyunca anladım ki, hayatı asıl olarak durum öyküleri yansıtıyor.
Sıradan insanların monotonlaşmış hayatlarından kesitlerden oluşan öyküler bazen öylesine vurucu bir değerdeydi ki, yazarın yaşadığı zamana rağmen insanın doğasını bu kadar iyi çözebilmesine hayret ettim.
Katherine Mansfield'in bütün öykülerinin toplandığı kitapta öykülerin en uzunusayfayı geçmez, Kısa kısa kesitlerle sunuyor bize insanın içinde yaşadığı çelişkileri, acımasızlığı, kadınları sıkıştırıp bırakan zamanın ne kadar zor geçtiğini.
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Parasız kalmış bir opera sanatçısı, kocasına ilk başlarda aşık olan ama sonraları ondan iğrenen bir kadının gözlerini açtığı sabahların aynılığı, dışarıda hayat akıp giderken şapkacı dükkanında çalışan bir kızın gelen yakışıklı müşteriyle ilgili hayalleri, çocuğu ölmüş bir kadının bir anlık hissettikleri, aranan bir katili bulup ona acıyıp saklayan fakat sonra yeri bulunduğunda yakalanmasını büyük bir coşkuyla seyreden bir kadının o ikiyüzlülüğü.
Bu öykü beni çok etkiledi, Önce çocuğa acıyıp saklıyor, sonra içinden "Yakalayın onu!" diye çığlıklar atıyor, İnsanın doğasını bundan daha güzel anlatan bir hikaye daha okumamıştım,
Ve bunlar gibi onlarca kısa öykü, Bazen yaşadıklarınızı kelimelere döken bir yazarla karşılaşırsınız ve kendinizi yalnız hissetmezsiniz ya, bu kitapta onu yaşadım.
İngiltere'de yaşadığı çağın ilerisinde olan kadınların yazar olduğunu düşünüyorum, Çünkü sokaklara çıkamıyorlardı. Oturup yazmaya karar verdiler. İngiliz Edebiyatı'nda mutlu bir kadın yazar bulmak neredeyse imkansız, Hep bir kalıba sokulmaya çalışılmış, yasaklarla boğulmuş ve aşkta mutluluğu yakalayamamış kadınların kalemlerinin izi var öykülerde,
Yaşadığı dönemin sosyetik tabanıyla fena dalga geçen bir yazar, Ve bu yüzden kendini ne kadar yalnız hissettiği de apaçık,
Sevdiğim ve saygı duyduğum kadın yazarlara bir tane daha eklendiği için mutluyum, İngiliz Edebiyatı'yla ilgilenen arkadaşların okuması gerektiğini düşünüyorum.
Durum öyküleri okumaya devam edeceğim kesinlikle, Having already read Bliss sitelinkstars, Feuille d'album sitelinkstars and A dill pickle sitelinkstars, I jumped straight to:
Prelude the Burnell family is moving Stanley Burnell is married to Linda, they have three daughters Isabel, Kezia, Lottie Linda's mother Mrs Fairfield and sister Beryl live with themstars
Je ne parle pas français Raoul, a Parisian, meets Dick the Englishman and they connect through their love of literature Dick comes back to Paris with a woman and invites Raoul to live with themstars
The wind blows woken up by the wind, Matilda goes to her music lessonstars
Psychology a female playwright and a male novelist take tea and discuss the merits of the psychological novelstars
Pictures miss Ada Moss, a contralto singer is seeking employmentstars
The man without a temperament sickly mrs Jinnie Salesby has gone on a walk with her husband, Robertstars
Mr.
Reginald Peacock's day Reginald is woken up by his wife for breakfast in an utterly irritating fashionstars
Sun and moon the children, Sun and Moon, are hanging around the house while a party is being preparedstars
The little governess a French governess referred to throughout the story as "the little governess" is off on the train to Munich, from where she will go to a new house for workstars
Revelations even though she is only thirty three Monica at times considers herself to be old, not as pretty as other women and not understood by anybodystars
The escape odds are that a couple is going to miss their train and the wife is silently fuming at her husbandstars.
stars. An interesting, engaging, well written collection ofshort stories first published in, I particularly liked Je ne parle pas francais, A gentleman witnesses a
young couples turbulent relationship, I also enjoyed A Dill Pickle where two people meet after six years, They are both in their thirties, They think about and talk of their relationship six years ago and how things have changed, The fourteen stories are not dramatic, They describe human behaviour and personal frailties, Have you felt bliss just because of the weather a day flushed with just the right amount of sunshine, just the perfectly cool breeze, just just because
Have you felt bliss in watching a tree blossom and shed in your backyard stunned by its beauty in every season
Have you felt bliss in coming back home
Have you felt the bliss of sudden realisations
I know I have!
I have been enraptured out of a bad mood by good weather.
I have had a tree to myself all my childhood, one that was always there, no matter the season or time of day, no matter who came and who left, it was there in my joys and jilts, it stood outside my bedroom window, not in my house, just a little distance away, and everytime I came home, it was there.
Just the fact that it was there was enough for me, to know that somethings wont change, And when I left home for college, and then returned for the holidays, it was still there until one time, it wasnt, I know the despair I felt that day, Im yet to reconcile with it,
Coming back home has always been the greatest bliss of life, and sudden realisations, well, they can be blissful too,
Happiness is bliss, Calm is bliss.
Nature is bliss.
Is ignorance bliss
Probably not, In my opinion, definitely not,
Bliss, a short story by KatherineMansfield, is absolute bliss, Read it, please!
Oh, the other stories were good too, but nothing compares to Bliss!
Overall:stars!
Bliss:stars! Perhaps I didnt absolutely love or even understand the subtleties of every single story in this collection, but no matter: when we click, I feel Katherine Mansfield speaks directly to my soul.
She certainly speaks to my mercurial self, who knows all too well the extremes of Utter Bliss and of Complete Despair,
Definitely the kinds of short stories that are worth taking in slowly, one by one, and letting linger as I did, so Im glad I took my time to finish this tiny and beautiful Bloomsbury Classics publication, one of several Ive managed to collect.
Now all that remains to do is to read everything shes ever written in her abbreviated life, and everything everyone else has written about her that is worth reading.
Id put that in the long term projects category, One doesnt like to rush such things, Promedio:.
Algunos cuentos muy Flojos, Misma técnica en todos los cuentos,
Felicidad
La mosca
La casa de muñecas
La fiesta en el jardín
Vida de Ma Parker
La mujer del almacén
Preludio
El canario
La lección de cantoGente, mas que coisa linda.
Sempre tive problemas em gostar de contos como gosto de romances e novelas, mas essa seleção da Mansfield é irretocável,
Il piacere delle piccole cose
Ho iniziato a leggere in realtà ad ascoltare, trattandosi di un audiolibro questo libro di Katherine Mansfield assolutamente per caso, non guidato da recensioni o commenti.
Pur non essendo un grande estimatore di racconti, questi brevi quadri mi hanno subito colpito, rilassato, emozionato e incantato,
Non vogliono necessariamente arrivare da nessuna parte ma si limitano a trasmettere con pochissime parole sensazioni vivide parole che si trasformano rapidamente in immagini.
"Che cosa ci volete fare se avete trent'anni e, voltando l'angolo della strada, vi sentite sopraffatti, all'improvviso, da un senso di felicità, di assoluta felicità, come se aveste d'un tratto inghiottito un pezzo lucente di quel tardo sole pomeridiano che vi bruciasse dentro, spandendo una pioggerella di scintille in ogni intima fibra, in ogni dito delle mani e dei piedi"
Una scrittura precisa e con un grande potere evocativo.
Dettagli, luci, odori, ombre, l'intimità della casa, gesti, piccole cose contribuiscono a creare atmosfere rarefatte e quasi sospese nel tempo una scoperta piacevolissima che mi porterà certamente ad approfondire altri racconti della scrittrice.
Aggiungo un plauso alla audiolettura di Rita Savagnone, semplicemente splendida nell'interpretazione e in grado di valorizzare al massimo queste bellissime pagine.
Forse l'accostamento dei racconti in questa edizione potrebbe essere a mio parere migliorato ma è solo una sfumatura, I thought that this was a mixed bag,
I had read other collections of short stories by this author, and enjoyed them immensely, but this book left me cold, In part I suspect this is down to me my reading mood shifts constantly, Another Mansfield book awaits in my to read pile, perhaps I will fare better next time,
A couple of the stories were a cut above the rest in my view
Pictures penniless resting singer seeks employment, Ultimately she takes the only job she can get
The little governess naive English governess is led astray in Munich
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Revisiting just this one story, Mr Reginald Peacock's Day from the collection, via Rx: A singing teacher ponders the mundane nature of his married life, compared to the passion of his profession.
Read by Brian Gear. I find all Katherines work amazing, storyline and writing style, I recommend dipping into all her short fiction, Esta autora fue contemporánea y amiga de Virginia Woolf y tuvo una existencia breve y tormentosa, pero llena de una pasión que se puede encontrar en sus relatos.
La mayoría son retratos costumbristas de la vida de las clases medias de su época, escenas familiares donde no pasa gran cosa, hasta que afloran sentimientos y pasiones escondidas.
En general me han gustado todos estos cuentos, llenos de pequeños detalles, con alegorías modernistas, que son como chispas que los iluminan.
Mis preferidos son:
Felicidad Con un estilo que recuerda a Mrs Dalloway de Virginia Woolf, trata temas como el matrimonio y el adulterio o los nuevos roles de la mujer en el mundo cambiante de la Inglaterra de.
El tono es ligero pero hay muchas ideas y símbolos en el aire,
La mosca Relato muy perturbador, ligado a los horrores de la guerra mundial y que muestra una gran desconfianza en la naturaleza humana.
La casa de muñecas Aquí la casa de muñecas es un juguete que funciona como instrumento de exclusión para las niñas de clase desfavorecida.
Centrada en la dinámica que se da entre las niñas y en cómo la mayoría reproduce los esquemas sociales que se les inculcan.
La fiesta en el jardín De nuevo aquí se retrata el orden social y cómo un accidente en las casas obreras vecinas perturba una fiesta de una familia acomodada.
Laura es la hija encargada de organizar la fiesta e intenta tender puentes entre los dos mundos,
La lección de canto Como en la mayoría de estos relatos, la perspectiva es enteramente femenina: todo se desarrolla en la mente de esta profesora que, mientras da la clase, recibe noticias de su prometido.
Asistimos a una tormenta de emociones detrás de la fachada victoriana e impasible de esta mujer, Un audiolibro magnifico, che raccoglie tre racconti di Katherine Mansfield: Psicologia, Felicità e Un cetriolino all'aneto,
In tutti e tre i racconti si esplorano approfonditamente le relazioni umane e in particolare le incomprensioni che praticamente sono la base di tutta la vita dei protagonisti di questo racconto.
Le cose sembrano sempre, per un attimo, diverse da come sono in realtà: il risveglio è brusco, anche gli affetti più sinceri possono farci soffrire, soprattutto se mentiamo a noi stessi.
L'attrice che legge i tre racconti è molto brava, anche se la sua voce non mi è piaciuta moltissimo, Invece ho adorato gli interludi pianistici che impreziosiscono la breve raccolta, "Oh is there no way you can express it without being 'drunk and disorderly' How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle" This is an excerpt from the most famous short story in this collection Bliss.
The excerpt is a great example of Mansfield's writing, It is expressive and immediately creates a picture in the reader's mind, Her writing reflects her sharp observations of societal norms,
I bought this book randomly from a second hand bookshop, The lovely thing about going to second hand bookshops is that you never know what you'll find, I had never read Katherine Mansfield before and thought it's never a bad time to discover a new author, And I'm glad I picked this up, The stories here are funny, irreverent and sensitive all at once,
I find that her writing style is quite unique, She doesn't build back stories, And it feels intentional. She writes about moments. Important moments that her characters experience, And it is that anecdote she is elaborating on in her short story not what happened before nor where things are headed, It is the present that she focuses on, suspended in space and captured in moments, .
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