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Los mejores cuentos de una de las plumas más brillantes del modernismo anglosajón Introducción de Paula Ducay Figura clave del modernismo anglosajón, Katherine Mansfield perdura como una de las grandes maestras del cuento moderno. El presente volumen incluye una cuidada selección de sus mejores relatos, desde las sátiras de juventud hasta las comedias de madurez, caracterizadas por la franqueza y la melancolía. En escenas de familia, historias de parejas, episodios intimistas o crónicas de viajes, la autora evoca tanto su infancia en Nueva Zelanda como la bohemia europea de principios del siglo XX, siempre en busca de momentos reveladores para sus personajes. El conjunto celebra los gestos, sobreentendidos y punzadas que conforman nuestra vida cotidiana. Sobre la autora y su «Nuestra sensibilidad de un siglo después se reconoce en las historias de Katherine Mansfield porque ellas mismas han estado irradiando con sigilo su influjo, durante más de cien años, a varias generaciones de lectores y escritores». Antonio Muñoz Molina, El País «Sus cuentos desafiaron y alteraron en gran medida la naturaleza y la forma de la narrativa literaria». Ali Smith «Cualquier relato suyo es un espectáculo de osadía. [...] Relatos pulidos hasta la perfección, pero llenos de momentos sentidos que evocan sentimientos». Cristina Domenech «Su voz era la voz de la modernidad». Claire Tomalin, Katherine Mansfield. Una vida secreta «Escribía los cuentos a vuelapluma, en pocas horas, casi en trance [...] Ponía las manos sobre la esencia del tiempo». Pietro Citati, La vida breve de Katherine Mansfield «Yo envidiaba su escritura, la única escritura de la que he sentido envidia alguna vez [...] Probablemente teníamos algo en común que no encontraré en nadie más». Virginia Woolf «La admiro muchísimo, y me siento afín a ella en muchas cosas». Philip Larkin Please This audiobook is in Spanish.
Author
Kathleen 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.
