The Wind Blows

by Katherine Mansfield

Paperback. 12,50 / 21,00 cm. In Turkish. 280 p. Original Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield Translated by Sadan Karadeniz Prepared by Enis Batur, Volkan Atmaca, Çaglayan Çevik Virginia Woolf'un bir öykü yazari olarak degerini "yazisina en çok gipta ettigim yazar" diye açikça dile getirdigi Katherine Mansfield'in (1888-1923), ilk baskisi 1945 yilinda yapilan Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield adli toplu öykülerinden Sadan Karadeniz'in zaman dizinsel bir yaklasimla derleyip çevirdigi 16 öykülük bir seçki Ah Bu Rüzgâr. Yer yer bir novella olusturabilecek uzunluktaki veya adeta büyük bir romanin giris kismi hissini uyandiran kisa öyküleri ile çogunlukla Çehov'la birlikte anilan Katherine Mansfield'in dünya öykücülügündeki yeri bütün yirminci yüzyil boyunca önemini korumus; kendine özgü olaganüstü diline, özgün yazis biçemine duyulan ilgi yirmi birinci yüzyila da tasmistir. Çünkü iyi yazar, her seyden önce insani öne alan, evrensel insan damarini yakalayan yazardir, neyi, nasil anlattiginin, dilinin de ötesinde... "Ah, bu rüzgâr, ah, bu rüzgâr. Burada, odasinda tek basina olmak ürkütücü. Yatak, ayna, beyaz sürahiyle lavabo disaridaki gökyüzü gibi parliyor. Ürkütücü olan yatak, aslinda. Öylece uzanmis, derin uykuda... Annesi, yorganin üstünde çöreklenmis yilan gibi dügüm olmus bütün o çoraplari yamayacagini bir an olsun düsünüyor mu acaba? Düsünmüyor. Annem düsünmez. Peki, ben niye düsüneyim... Ah, bu rüzgâr!"

Genres: Short Stories, Classics

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp) was a prominent New Zealand modernist writer of short fiction who wrote under the pen name of Katherine Mansfield.

Katherine Mansfield is widely considered one of the best short story writers of her period. A number of her works, including "Miss Brill", "Prelude", "The Garden Party", "The Doll's House", and later works such as "The Fly", are frequently collected in short story anthologies. Mansfield also proved ahead of her time in her adoration of Russian playwright and short story writer Anton Chekhov, and incorporated some of his themes and techniques into her writing.

Katherine Mansfield was part of a "new dawn" in English literature with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. She was associated with the brilliant group of writers who made the London of the period the centre of the literary world.

Nevertheless, Mansfield was a New Zealand writer - she could not have written as she did had she not gone to live in England and France, but she could not have done her best work if she had not had firm roots in her native land. She used her memories in her writing from the beginning, people, the places, even the colloquial speech of the country form the fabric of much of her best work.

Mansfield's stories were the first of significance in English to be written without a conventional plot. Supplanting the strictly structured plots of her predecessors in the genre (Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, H. G. Wells), Mansfield concentrated on one moment, a crisis or a turning point, rather than on a sequence of events. The plot is secondary to mood and characters. The stories are innovative in many other ways. They feature simple things - a doll's house or a charwoman. Her imagery, frequently from nature, flowers, wind and colours, set the scene with which readers can identify easily.

Themes too are universal: human isolation, the questioning of traditional roles of men and women in society, the conflict between love and disillusionment, idealism and reality, beauty and ugliness, joy and suffering, and the inevitability of these paradoxes. Oblique narration (influenced by Chekhov but certainly developed by Mansfield) includes the use of symbolism - the doll's house lamp, the fly, the pear tree - hinting at the hidden layers of meaning. Suggestion and implication replace direct detail.

Reviews

[Perry Whitford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Impressionistic short story where the wind acts as an obvious symbol for the emotional turmoil of a pubescent girl. She hates her looks, her mother, and the girl next door (‘Her skirt flies up about her waist … she doesn’t mind what she does’). She loves the wind, her brother, and her piano teacher, who might just have feelings for her not to be excused by raving hormones.

I love Modernist literature. Stupid name of course, I can't see the work of that period being stuck with that title forever, only the art of the present can be reasonably labeled modern in any meaningful sense.

This story is very short, merely a sketch really; however, Mansfield manages to stir up some strong emotions with a dash of internal monologuing, a few vivid scenes, and an adept narrative shift in perspective at the end which maybe real or imagined.

The Wind Blows features in one of the author's short story collections, I forget which, but if like me you don't have any of her books to hand you can read this online at the digital library which celebrates women writers specifically, an invaluable resource situated here:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/wome...

[Romie · Rating 3 out of 5]

this is probably the shortest thing I've read for uni, but also one of my favourite short stories I've read for my british lit class! although we do not get to spend much time with the story, we get to know quite a lot about the main character, Matilda. I had not expected to like it as much as I did, considering that I found all the other short stories I've read from this author, weird and quite boring honestly. but even though this one is weird as well, it made me feel things, made me feel for Matilda, and made me want to learn more about her story! (3.5)

[Paloma orejuda (Pevima) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pues... es tan corto y tan... suyo, que no me he enterado de nada (supongo que también era algo metafórico, o no...).
No lo he entendido, pero eso sí, no se si era la traducción o porque en el original estaba escrito buscando la rima, pero me pareció que la pluma era muy poética.

En fin, 2 estrellas sobre 5 porque está muy bien escrito pero me resulto bastante meh.

[Brona's Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Wind Blows is one of the stories set in New Zealand during Mansfield's nostalgic phase, it also feels rather biographical. A young girl, Matilda, all fidgety and flighty thanks to a windy day is straining against the boundaries put in place by her mother. She doesn't want to darn the socks or bring in the washing and escapes instead to her music lessons. She feels misunderstood and out of place. Until she and younger brother, Bogey, run down to the sea to watch the ships leave port.

A sudden twist in the story and we realise that Matilda is remembering this windy day by the sea with her brother. She and Bogey are, in fact, already on board the ship, leaving New Zealand for good. Liberty and freedom is theirs!
"Look, Bogey, there's the town. Doesn't it look small? There's the post office clock chiming for the last time. There's the esplanade where we walked that windy day. Do you remember? I cried at my music lesson that day-how many years ago! Goodbye little island, good-bye. . . . "

I've been in Wellington on a windy day. It really does howl around your legs and hair and clothes, unsettling even the most placid temperament. Matilda is a typical teen chaffing against authority and the confines of family life. She's ready to fly the coop, but has nowhere to go. The windy day exacerbates her angsty feelings; it's another form of opposition.

As Bogey and Matilda sail away, we see this as Matilda (KM) saying goodbye not only to her home town but childhood as well. Gillian Boddy's Katherine Mansfield: The Woman and the Writer (1988) confirms the biographical element in this story. My understanding of the timeline is that her first draft in 1915 was written prior to her brother, Leslie's death in October. The rewrite, obviously reflects her grief at this unimaginable loss.
Clearly based on the memories she had shared with Leslie during the summer of 1915, this story has a strange power. Matilda is K.M., she used the pseudonym Matilda Berry at this time, while Bogey was the family name for Leslie, which K.M. later transferred to Murry (her husband).
Full review here - http://bronasbooks.blogspot.com/2020/...

[effanineffable · Rating 4 out of 5]

მადლობა სანდროს😁❤️

[Alba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very well

[Sussy_lwp · Rating 4 out of 5]

🙋🏻‍♀️📲🔊 Audiolibro

Cautivador relato, que logra en tan pocas palabras ebocar tanto y hace un paralelo del viento con la musica y el sentir como transcurre la vida como un destello de fe. 🙌💖🥺

[Mike Lisanke · Rating 3 out of 5]

here's another one... to me, there's nothing there

[Zehra]

gerçekten mansfieldin yazarlığına lafım yok hatta koyda adlı hikayesini zamanında okuduğumda çok sevmiştim ama genel olarak beklentimi karşılamadı ya belki de okuduğum zamandan dolayıdır