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A Viagem
“A viagem" [The Voyage] é um conto modernista que conta a história de Fenella e sua viagem para ir morar com os avós. Começando a jornada se despedindo do pai, a autora narra a viagem da personagem com a avó até sua chegada a nova casa. Com sua escrita leve e sutil, a autora aborda temas como a morte, a mudança, o sacrifício e o ato de deixar o passado para trás.
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Published April 20, 2017
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Katherine Mansfield
983 books1,211 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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June 12, 2016
A delicate story of a family undergoing major changes in an understated way.
August 22, 2023
so vivid. it was 25° outside yet i could feel the ship’s icy cold on me while reading this
March 5, 2022
Eu gosto das histórias de Katherine Mansfield, acho que ela escrevia bem, conectava naturalmente um parágrafo no outro, uma palavra após a outra habilmente apresentando a história que queria contar e sutilmente apresentando o retrato da sociedade e fazendo sua crítica.
O resultado disso são seus contos maravilhosos, incrivelmente tocantes e sensíveis.
Ouvir a história não amenizou a tristeza que senti com ela. Acho até que acentuou. Mas entendi a crítica feita pela autora.
A narração é excelente. Além das vozes diferenciadas para cada personagem, havia os sons de crianças brincando que ambientou o leitor.
É um conto triste, que me fez lacrimejar. Mas não deixar de estar longe da realidade. As pessoas podem ser cruéis com essa separação de classes e, infelizmente, nem as crianças são poupadas. Pior é ver que essa fase de inocência onde não deveria haver divisão nenhuma é quando se começa a plantar o preconceito. Triste ver como a criançada é influenciada por regras bobas da sociedade.
Merged review:
Essa história me pareceu meio incompleta. No início, eu estava bastante investida; até porque Katherine Mansfield nos dá detalhes que me ajudaram a imaginar os personagens andando apressados para não perderem o navio. Os detalhes nos escritos dela chamam muito a minha atenção.
Mas Fenella é uma personagem que nem precisava existir de tão inútil que é à história. Ela tá lá para a gente ter uma perspectiva infantil do que acontece, mas não serviu muito, não.
Pelo menos é uma história menos triste da que ouvi antes da autora.
A narração, mais uma vez, foi excelente.
O resultado disso são seus contos maravilhosos, incrivelmente tocantes e sensíveis.
Ouvir a história não amenizou a tristeza que senti com ela. Acho até que acentuou. Mas entendi a crítica feita pela autora.
A narração é excelente. Além das vozes diferenciadas para cada personagem, havia os sons de crianças brincando que ambientou o leitor.
É um conto triste, que me fez lacrimejar. Mas não deixar de estar longe da realidade. As pessoas podem ser cruéis com essa separação de classes e, infelizmente, nem as crianças são poupadas. Pior é ver que essa fase de inocência onde não deveria haver divisão nenhuma é quando se começa a plantar o preconceito. Triste ver como a criançada é influenciada por regras bobas da sociedade.
Merged review:
Essa história me pareceu meio incompleta. No início, eu estava bastante investida; até porque Katherine Mansfield nos dá detalhes que me ajudaram a imaginar os personagens andando apressados para não perderem o navio. Os detalhes nos escritos dela chamam muito a minha atenção.
Mas Fenella é uma personagem que nem precisava existir de tão inútil que é à história. Ela tá lá para a gente ter uma perspectiva infantil do que acontece, mas não serviu muito, não.
Pelo menos é uma história menos triste da que ouvi antes da autora.
A narração, mais uma vez, foi excelente.
May 20, 2014
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The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water ruffled under Fenella’s hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on. It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the wool sheds, the cattle trucks, the cranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out of solid darkness. Here and there on a rounded wood-pile, that was like the stalk of a huge black mushroom, there hung a lantern, but it seemed afraid to unfurl its timid, quivering light in all that blackness; it burned softly, as if for itself.
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The Picton boat was due to leave at half-past eleven. It was a beautiful night, mild, starry, only when they got out of the cab and started to walk down the Old Wharf that jutted out into the harbour, a faint wind blowing off the water ruffled under Fenella’s hat, and she put up her hand to keep it on. It was dark on the Old Wharf, very dark; the wool sheds, the cattle trucks, the cranes standing up so high, the little squat railway engine, all seemed carved out of solid darkness. Here and there on a rounded wood-pile, that was like the stalk of a huge black mushroom, there hung a lantern, but it seemed afraid to unfurl its timid, quivering light in all that blackness; it burned softly, as if for itself.
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January 22, 2025
“one tiny boy, only his little black arms and legs showing out of a white woolly shawl, was jerked along angrily between his father and mother; he looked like a baby fly that had fallen into the cream”
Comparing a black little boy to a fly … oh okay Miss Mansfield.
Comparing a black little boy to a fly … oh okay Miss Mansfield.
January 16, 2021
Esta série da Balão Editorial é perfeita para se conhecer autores. Ebooks de histórias curtas com ótimo preço. Gostei muito do estilo. Uma forma sutil de falar sobre o racismo incutido desde a infância, quando ainda se sabe tão pouco sobre relações de poder que se ousa inocente e naturalmente quebrar tais barreiras impostas.
December 16, 2022
*3.5 stars*
Fenella is struggling to keep up with her father and grandmother as they rush towards the Picton boat. This will be a journey into a new life for Fenella, as she and her grandmother say goodbye to her father and watch as he walks down the gangplank. Very atmospheric and beautifully written.
Fenella is struggling to keep up with her father and grandmother as they rush towards the Picton boat. This will be a journey into a new life for Fenella, as she and her grandmother say goodbye to her father and watch as he walks down the gangplank. Very atmospheric and beautifully written.
September 30, 2018
saw this in SAT practice and had to finish the story. Really good story, very descriptive and engaging. I didn't really understand the ending so it's kinda a let down at first but you eventually read into it and wonder what certain things could mean.
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March 17, 2023
triste pensar q de certa forma, as coisas ainda são assim, a desigualdade financeira, a sucessão feminina na sociedade, o preconceito desde a infância…
“Talvez seja assim que Deus abre as casas no meio da noite, quando dá um passeio tranquilo com um anjo.”
“Talvez seja assim que Deus abre as casas no meio da noite, quando dá um passeio tranquilo com um anjo.”
August 16, 2014
Allah Sebagai Matlamat - Hassan Al-Banna
August 8, 2017
I may be a little biased as "the Picton boat" written about in this novel is the one I refer to as the Ferry and Picton is my hometown but still, I've always enjoyed Katherine Mansfield's novels
July 13, 2020
Was a hard read due to the language, but I enjoyed how the atmosphere of wharfs and cabins is represented. Truly spoke to my feelings at times.
July 30, 2019
"The lamp was still burning, but night was over."
December 27, 2021
2,5 pra cima
Bem escrito e os assuntos abordados são interessantes mas nada extraordinário.
Bem escrito e os assuntos abordados são interessantes mas nada extraordinário.
January 22, 2024
helt grei, fant den ikke så engasjerende som visse andre
March 27, 2024
Lindo!
May 9, 2025
yep i did in fact log this short story as a read book despite it being 25 pages
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