Selected Stories

Resumen del libro

This Norton Critical Edition includes thirty-five of Katherine Mansfield's short stories with explanatory annotations. With the exception of the first four stories, all were written within a period of ten years. These stories, and the letters following, reflect the urgency of a writer who knew her time was limited. All but four of the texts of the stories reprinted here are versions that Mansfield herself revised or selected.
Twenty excerpts from Mansfield's correspondence address the craft of writing and her own views on her work, subjects rarely broached in her many letters.
"Criticism" includes eighteen essays that collectively suggest the changing emphases in how Mansfield has been read by critics. Contributors include fellow writers Rebecca West, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, V. S. Pritchett, Elizabeth Bowen, and Frank O' Connor, as well as biographers Claire Tomalin and Vincent O'Sullivan, among others.
A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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Biografía del autor

Katherine Mansfield (Nueva Zelanda, 1888-Francia,1923) fue una gran escritora que quiso trascender los límites de su tiempo y se reveló como una artista de la palabra. Trabajó sus cuentos como artefactos que trascendieran: bien por la temática: el paso del siglo XIX al XX, las consecuencias de la Primera Guerra Mundial, bien por el lenguaje utilizado, sus observaciones precisas, la sutil belleza, la elegancia de su estilo narrativo. Publicó tres libros de cuentos Preludio, Je ne parle pas français, Felicidad y La fiesta en el jardín). A esto se suman sus cuentos dispersos en diversos medios, muchísimas notas (más de 120 reseñas), un libro de poesía (conocido de forma póstuma), sus cartas, un Diario canónico (editado -y manipulado- por su marido: John Middleton Murry) y sus papeles dispersos.