Katherine Mansfield

At The Bay (eBook, ePUB)

Short Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With their annual vacation coming to an end, the Burnells and the Trouts spend the day at the beach. While the children dig for treasures in the sand, the adults ponder the fleeting nature of life and the best way to live.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Canada
• Seitenzahl: 25
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781443439695
• Artikelnr.: 41094211

Autorenporträt

Katherine Mansfield was a popular New Zealand short-story writer best known for the stories "The Woman at the Shore," "How Pearl Button Was Kidnapped," "The Doll's House," and her twelve-part short story "Prelude," which was inspired by her happy childhood. Although Mansfield initially had her sights set on becoming a professional cellist, her role as editor of the Queen's College newspaper prompted a change to writing. Mansfield's style of writing revolutionized the form of the short story at the time, in that it depicted ordinary life and left the endings open to interpretation, while also raising uncomfortable questions about society and identity. Mansfield died in 1923 after struggling for many years with tuberculosis.

Rezensionen

"The only writing I have ever been jealous of." --Virginia Woolf

"By the time of her death in 1923, at age 34, she was being acclaimed as one of the few truly outstanding short-story writers in English, and with minor fluctuations her reputation has held firm ever since." --The New York Times

"A courageous, reckless character--by turns precociously sensual, cynical, and childish . . . There are stories of hers that last, because they have her sting, delicacy, and wit." --V.S. Pritchett, The New Yorker

"[Mansfield has brought] her inventions right over the threshold of art. They are extraordinarily solid; they have lived so long in her mind that she knows all about them and can ransack them for the difficult, rare, essential points." --Rebecca West