- Hardcover
- Publisher: Modern Library (1922)
- ASIN: B002BPKXUY
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
please don't miss this - Mansfield is essential,
By A Customer
This review is from: 20th Century Garden Party And Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
If you've never read her short stories (she never wrote anything else), please do, and then read her journal. There is really something incredible that's underneath the surface of her short stories. If you just looked at the surface you might think they were cutesy or affected (little girls figure largely), but you would be completely missing the point. It's hard to explain what's so moving about them. When she describes some lazy afternoon, she just gets it so right that all the vast range of human experience seems to be contained in this afternoon (whereas in any Great American Novel-esque tomes you read only a fraction of that experience is ever expressed). But at the same time, it was just this cute little vignette that had very satisfying descriptions of flowers and little girls playing. The journal will help you understand her sadness as it's expressed in her work. You know when you are very, very upset, and you see something so beautiful or even funny, you're likely to become on the verge of tears? That's how Mansfield sounds in her stories - the stories are that beautiful thing that she sees. She is most often compared to Chekhov, and it's not difficult to see why. I truly believe that Mansfield innovated and practically invented the English (language) short story.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Garden Party,
By A Customer
This review is from: 20th Century Garden Party And Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
Mansfield's innovative diction captivates readers and draws one into her own world. A world in which individuals are not bound by the common restraints of society.
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Garden Party and Other Stories,
By Wal Maassen (New Zealand) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 20th Century Garden Party And Other Stories (Mass Market Paperback)
I came across K.M. as she liked to be refered, 60 years after her death. Very late,but better late then never. And especially for K.M. In a german Pension indrigued me first,a review told me, she could have made a lot of money, to publish it again, during the WWI.she declined. She had lost her Brother at the somme, but could not bring herself to more war mongering.Then I read The Garden Party, and new nearly instandly what kind of person she might have been. She disliked being priviliged, down the Street, kids her age where starving. The Garden Party gave her an opportunity to disclose Society as what it was. The gap between the Have and Have not.And this in the early 20th century in New Zealand. And the Garden Party is on of the few stories at the backdrop of New Zealand scenery. Her Stories make still a highly interesting read, very modern issues with an unbelievable talent for drama, as well as a very dry Sense of humor, like in 'A german Pension' One or two stories of her are always my companion.
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