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Mansfield

av C. K. Stead

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"Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the Fist World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' whic she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even, once, into the war zone to be with her French lover, nevelist Francis Carco. For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely 'background', but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible - as does her love for Jack's Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war's shadow remorselessly darkens all their lives, but only increases Mansfield's determination to break through as a writer. While sticking scupulously to what is known about Mansfield's life and those of her friends (a cast that includes DH and Frieda Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, T S Elliot, Lady Ottoline Morrel and Virginia Wolfe), this novel is extraordinary in taking the reader beyond the point of biography into… (mer)
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Having recently read several books with distinct voices and dialects, I was slow to warm to this quieter reflective read, but warm I did. I found this a fascinating insight not only into a period in Katherine Mansfield's life but also into the literary and art scene set against the backdrop of World War I. They were clearly breaking new ground in the arts and social mores of the early twentieth century. ( )
  HelenBaker | Mar 27, 2015 |
What would it be like, I wonder, to read CK Stead's novel of Katherine Mansfield and her milieu without a working knowledge of English literary and intellectual culture in the opening decades of the 20th century? Prompted by Stead, the familiar cast of characters emerges from the recesses of memory a little uncertainly at first like clockwork figures, each with their characteristic stage make-up, grimaces, mannerisms and accoutrements. There is Bertrand Russell with his high celluloid collar, clenched pipe and withering halitosis; D H Lawrence, with wiry ginger hair, jutting red beard, tiresome argumentativeness and Frieda, his large German wife. In one of the more memorable set pieces in the novel Lawrence quarrels with Frieda and beats her viciously before collapsing in exhaustion and self pity. Ottoline Morrell is there, too, horsefaced, voracious in her pursuit of intellectual celebrities and oddly pathetic. Even Ludwig Wittgenstein, who was fighting on the German Front, makes an offstage appearance as the painful thorn in Bertrand Russell's self esteem. These well known figures provide the background for CK Stead's exploration of the triangular relationship between Katherine Mansfield, her awareness of her pre-eminent literary talent and 'Jack' Middleton Murry, her on and off lover, whom she eventually married. (To be continued) ( )
  Pauntley | May 7, 2013 |
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"Spanning three years in the life of the writer Katherine Mansfield during the Fist World War, this novel follows the ups and downs of her relationship with Jack Middleton Murry and her struggle to write the 'new kind of fiction' whic she felt the times demanded. She is restless, constantly on the move, in and out of London, to and from France, even, once, into the war zone to be with her French lover, nevelist Francis Carco. For a short time, Mansfield is able to behave as though the war is merely 'background', but her ardent relationship with her brother, who arrives from New Zealand to fight in France, makes detachment impossible - as does her love for Jack's Oxford friend Frederick Goodyear, also a soldier. The war's shadow remorselessly darkens all their lives, but only increases Mansfield's determination to break through as a writer. While sticking scupulously to what is known about Mansfield's life and those of her friends (a cast that includes DH and Frieda Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, Aldous Huxley, T S Elliot, Lady Ottoline Morrel and Virginia Wolfe), this novel is extraordinary in taking the reader beyond the point of biography into

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