The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (v. IV)

The letters is 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.

ISBN 0198185324   Part volume 1920-1921 ISBN13 9780198185321 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 751 Imprint Clarendon Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Series ISSN 4 Publication date 28 Mar 1996   Series title Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield Non-book description xix372   Height (mm) 242 Library of Congress 83012189   Width (mm) 161 DEWEY 823.912   Spine width (mm) 28 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 392

."..this collection of [Mansfield's] letters provides, finally, an accurate and reliable fourdation for Mansfield scholarship."--English Literature in Transition

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