the next page continues with: "...yet through it all, there have been moments, instants, gleams when she has felt the possibility of something quite other."
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Ohmigoodness, I let out this silent scream when I saw your post. I am a HUGE fan of Mansfield's writing - I love her stories to bits. And her own story also makes my heart swell and ache a little.
I'm so excited you're going to be reading her! Her writing is just - ugh, it's so exquisite. It's so delicate, but very assertive, and every description and line are so on point. This is so exciting. Ah, I hope you love her. Maybe I might be overhyping it for you. Just forget the things I say and let yourself marinate in her stories. They'll slowly pull you in. I look forward to hearing your updates on her stories :)
Her writing _is_ exquisite! I share your excitement because I am getting so caught up in the wording and the way the characters in her stories think and feel. So far my favorite is "The Tiredness Of Rosabel"! The ending just floors me:
"So she slept and dreamed, and smiled in her sleep, and once threw out her arm to feel for something which was not there, dreaming still.
And the night passed. Presently the cold fingers of dawn closed over her uncovered hand; grey light flooded the dull room. Rosabel shivered, drew a little gasping breath, sat up. And because her heritage was that tragic optimism, which is all too often the only inheritance of youth, still half asleep, she smiled, with a little nervous tremor round her mouth."
I love that the edition I own has a preface written by Elizabeth Bowen. She is another wonderful writer and is most appropriate for introducing Katherine Mansfield.
You are definitely not overhyping it! I'm only sorry my edition is not a complete collection. I'm in search of a more inclusive one with all of her work. :)
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