Adaryn
The Living Force
She is an author that I really love and admire. I studied her writings at university, and rediscovered her "Selected Stories" recently with great pleasure and awe. Her style is fantastic ; her short stories focus on the characters' inner states and her depiction of human psychology is so accurate, rich and subtle.
I found out she followed Gurdjieff's course at the end of her life and actually died of tuberculosis at G's institute in Paris :
http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Katherine_Mansfield
Here's an account by James Moore of their meeting :
"Gurdjieff and Mansfield" :
http://www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/KM_01__2006_02_MOORE_Initiation_PRIESTESS.doc
Virginia Woold said about her : 'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.'
Some of her masterpieces, which you can read online here :
http://emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-b/gprty10.htm
They include (I bolded my favourites ones):
1. At the Bay (sequel to "Prelude")
2. The Garden Party
3. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
4. Mr. and Mrs. Dove
5. The Young Girl
6. Life of Ma Parker
7. Marriage a la Mode
8. The Voyage
9. Miss Brill
10. Her First Ball
11. The Singing Lesson
12. The Stranger
13. Bank Holiday
14. An Ideal Family
15. The Lady's-Maid
Other short stories I most particularly loved :
- Bliss, which you can find online here (the title is significant -- but I don't want to spoil the "suspense") : http://www.inlex.org/stories/mansfield/bliss.html
- Prelude (introducing the characters of At the Bay)
-The Little Governess
- M. Reginald peacock day
- Sun and Moon
- The Man without a temperament
- Something childish but very natural
-The Fly
You can find all her short stories in paperbacks for a small price on Amazon.
I found out she followed Gurdjieff's course at the end of her life and actually died of tuberculosis at G's institute in Paris :
http://www.cassiopedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Katherine_Mansfield
Here's an account by James Moore of their meeting :
"Gurdjieff and Mansfield" :
http://www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/KM_01__2006_02_MOORE_Initiation_PRIESTESS.doc
Virginia Woold said about her : 'I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.'
Some of her masterpieces, which you can read online here :
http://emotional-literacy-education.com/classic-books-online-b/gprty10.htm
They include (I bolded my favourites ones):
1. At the Bay (sequel to "Prelude")
2. The Garden Party
3. The Daughters of the Late Colonel
4. Mr. and Mrs. Dove
5. The Young Girl
6. Life of Ma Parker
7. Marriage a la Mode
8. The Voyage
9. Miss Brill
10. Her First Ball
11. The Singing Lesson
12. The Stranger
13. Bank Holiday
14. An Ideal Family
15. The Lady's-Maid
Other short stories I most particularly loved :
- Bliss, which you can find online here (the title is significant -- but I don't want to spoil the "suspense") : http://www.inlex.org/stories/mansfield/bliss.html
- Prelude (introducing the characters of At the Bay)
-The Little Governess
- M. Reginald peacock day
- Sun and Moon
- The Man without a temperament
- Something childish but very natural
-The Fly
You can find all her short stories in paperbacks for a small price on Amazon.
