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Das Gartenfest
»Und schließlich war das Wetter ideal. Es war wie für ein Gartenfest gemacht.« Auch der Garten zeigt sich von seiner schönsten Seite, üppig blühend und duftend. Das Haus der Familie Sheridan summt wie ein Bienenkorb, man ist mitten in den Vorbereitungen für das große Fest. Doch durch einen Vorfall am Rande dieser heilen Welt bekommt Laura, die Tochter des Hauses, Kontakt zu einer anderen Lebenswirklichkeit …
Einfühlsam und präzise beschreibt die neuseeländische Autorin Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) hier sowie in den beiden anderen Erzählungen, Miss Brill und An der Bucht, wie vermeintlich unscheinbare Ereignisse in einem kurzen Augenblick das Leben ändern.
Einfühlsam und präzise beschreibt die neuseeländische Autorin Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) hier sowie in den beiden anderen Erzählungen, Miss Brill und An der Bucht, wie vermeintlich unscheinbare Ereignisse in einem kurzen Augenblick das Leben ändern.
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Published May 17, 2024
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Katherine Mansfield
976 books1,204 followersKathleen 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.
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.
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September 13, 2024
Das Gartenfest
Miss Brill
An der Bucht
داستانهاش حال و هوای طبیعت و بهار و تابستون دارن. داستانهایی زیبا و ملیح؛ لذت بردم.🌱✨🌊 داستان اول از نظر محتوا و داستان سوم از جهت توصیفات موردعلاقهام بودن♡
و نکتهای که درباره این داستانهای کوتاه هست و در موخره کتاب گفته شده بود... داستانهای کاترین منسفیلد اغلب از نظر طرح داستانی ضعیف اما از نظر فضایی غنی توصیف میشوند. برداشتها مهمتر از وقایع هستند.
Es stimmt, wenn man allein ist und über das Leben nachdenkt, wird man immer traurig. Die ganze Erregung und so weiter ist mit einem Mal verflogen, und es kommt einem in der Stille vor, als riefe einen jemand beim Namen und man höre seinen Namen zum ersten Mal. "Beryl!"
Miss Brill
An der Bucht
داستانهاش حال و هوای طبیعت و بهار و تابستون دارن. داستانهایی زیبا و ملیح؛ لذت بردم.🌱✨🌊 داستان اول از نظر محتوا و داستان سوم از جهت توصیفات موردعلاقهام بودن♡
و نکتهای که درباره این داستانهای کوتاه هست و در موخره کتاب گفته شده بود... داستانهای کاترین منسفیلد اغلب از نظر طرح داستانی ضعیف اما از نظر فضایی غنی توصیف میشوند. برداشتها مهمتر از وقایع هستند.
Es stimmt, wenn man allein ist und über das Leben nachdenkt, wird man immer traurig. Die ganze Erregung und so weiter ist mit einem Mal verflogen, und es kommt einem in der Stille vor, als riefe einen jemand beim Namen und man höre seinen Namen zum ersten Mal. "Beryl!"
May 17, 2025
katherine mansfield? a bi icon as far as i‘m concerned
August 21, 2024
sommerlich leicht. auf einem felsen am meer lässt es sich wirklich gut lesen. eine sprache aus einer anderen zeit, die ein wenig amüsiert.
July 5, 2024
Sehr atmosphärische, teilweise modern geschriebene Geschichten. Sommerlektüre für zwischendurch.
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