The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield

Name: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield
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By Katherine Mansfield

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The letters in this volume cover the eighteen months Katherine Mansfield spent in England, France and Switzerland from May 1920 to the end of 1921. It is the period of her finest stories, and when her life took its most decisive turn. There is a subtle but unmistakable change in her expectations, a new 'spiritual' insistence that is both elusive and resolute. From her Chekovian acceptance that 'they are cutting down the cherry trees' she derives a tough existential directness: 'the little boat enters the dark, fearful gulf ... Nobody listens. The shadowy figure rows on. One ought to sit still and uncover one's eyes.' There is a determined push - not always successful - towards a necessary honesty, as much as to artistic achievement; while those qualities of her earlier correspondence remain undiminished - the precision and directness, the intelligence and wit, the dark incisiveness as much as sheer fun. Above all, perhaps, these letters comprise a record of very considerable courage, against increasingly adverse odds, as they approach the final years of her life.

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Edition:: illustrated
Number of Pages:: 396
Release Date:: 1996-05-23
Publication Date:: 1996-03-28
Publisher:: OUP Oxford
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0198185324
ISBN13:: 9780198185321
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 757 g
Height:: 161 cm
Width:: 240 cm
Thickness:: 26 cm

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