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La obra de Katherine Mansfield es una de las má s interesantes y heterogé neas de la literatura inglesa del siglo XX. "Cuentos Í ntimos" es una antologÍ a que propone acercarse a una autora que supo mostrarle al mundo que el lugar que la cultura imperante, patriarcal y heteronormativa, asignaba a la mujer era el de lo Í ntimo, pero que esa intimidad a la que habÍ a sido relegada, podÍ a y debÍ a elevarse a la categorÍ a má s trascendente de las experiencias humanas. Entre las mujeres de los cuentos de Mansfield abundan auté nticas epifanÍ as cotidianas, iluminaciones domé sticas y fabulosas, que son tan transformadoras como incomunicables, y que actú an como un grito de rebelió n, una rebelió n invisible, protagonizada por todas las formas de ser mujer en el mundo._x000D_
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160 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2020
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Katherine Mansfield
974 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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February 4, 2021
Primera vez que leo a Mansfield.
Creo que es una autora muy subestimada.
Sus cuentos me parecieron muy buenos, sencillos, claros. Indagando en los sentimientos femeninos, en nuestro rol en la sociedad de esa y época y por qué no en cómo se nos ve hoy día.
Distintas mujeres, distintos proyectos, distintas maneras de ver la vida. Logradísimos cuentos de esta genia que se nos fue tan temprano.
Creo que es una autora muy subestimada.
Sus cuentos me parecieron muy buenos, sencillos, claros. Indagando en los sentimientos femeninos, en nuestro rol en la sociedad de esa y época y por qué no en cómo se nos ve hoy día.
Distintas mujeres, distintos proyectos, distintas maneras de ver la vida. Logradísimos cuentos de esta genia que se nos fue tan temprano.
October 13, 2022
Tenía bastante curiosidad por esta autora, la verdad me gusto bastante lo ameno y tranquilo de la lectura. Toma situaciones de la época que en la superficie parece comúnes, tranquilas y asi las narra, pero dentro de sus personajes pasa algo, algun sentimiento profundo que se siente mas tirando en los finales, y ahi se da una profundidad a la historia.
February 4, 2022
Me encantó conocer a Mansfield con estos cuentos. Sutiles, con un toque de ironía y con personajes femeninos rebeldes ante el lugar que les asigna el contexto social.
¡Una gran experiencia de lectura!
¡Una gran experiencia de lectura!
October 15, 2022
La aurora describe de forma breve y simple situaciones cotidianas dando lugar a la reflexión sobre el rol de la mujer y los estereotipos de las clases sociales.
Las tramas no son emotivas ni tienen grandes desenlaces. Aún así, vale la pena leerla.
Las tramas no son emotivas ni tienen grandes desenlaces. Aún así, vale la pena leerla.
November 14, 2022
Una lealtad con la vida de sus personajes, entrañada en mujeres distintas, sin más brillo que sus deseos y sueños grises. Cada cuento es un encuentro inesperado. Atemporal.
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