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    In a German Pension

    By Katherine Mansfield

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    Die neuseeländische Autorin Katherine Mansfield hielt sich Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts einige Zeit in Bad Wörishofen auf und lernte dort typische deutsche Kurgäste kennen. Ihre Eindrücke und Beobachtungen verarbeitete sie unterhaltsam und amüsant in der Geschichte: „In a German Pension“.(Text in englischer Sprache)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateDec 7, 2015
    ISBN9783739218755
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    Katherine Mansfield

    Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp was born in New Zealand in 1888. Her father sent her and her sisters to school in London, where she was editor of the school newspaper. Back in New Zealand, she started to write short stories but she grew tired of her life there. She returned to Europe in 1908 and went on to live in France, Italy, Germany and Switzerland. A restless soul who had many love affairs, her modernist writing was admired by her peers such as Leonard and Virginia Woolf, who published her story ‘Prelude’ on their Hogarth Press. In 1917 she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and she died in France aged only thirty-four.

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    • 3/5
      From the first paragraph of the first story, it is clear why this little collection caught the attention of the literary world. Katherine Mansfield dissects social interactions in a pithy and unapologetic way. She is particularly rough on men. Very ahead of her time, she has little respect for the institution of marriage or for family life and from her stories it would be hard to tell if she's ever seen a happy marriage or family. Some of her stories are funny, some pathetic, some beautiful and some devastating. She is a master of her craft and she leaves me cold.
    • 4/5
      This collection is the third and last part of my Kindle edition of "Selected Stories" (the first 2 parts, "The Garden Party and Other Stories" & "Bliss and Other Stories", I read in 2013). I found this collection distinct from the other 2 in that the stories are almost chapters in a "slice of life" novel, describing the various characters & events that occur while the main character, an Englishwoman, is staying at this pension (sort of like a boarding house).
    • 4/5
      This was Katherine Mansfield's first collection of stories, published in 1911 when she was in her early twenties. The sto ries are told by a young married Englishwoman who is staying alone at a pension in a German spa town while taking the cure. As the guests tend to stay for weeks or even months, she has plenty of time to get to know their foibles, and the stories take a satirical look at her fellow guests, concentrating on their snobbish and obsequious regard for the aristocracy, and their withering disdain for everything English. The narrator is criticised for the huge breakfasts eaten by people in England and the habit of warming the pot when making tea, since after all we are not going to eat the teapot! Her fellow guests also dislike the cold temperament of the English, their unmusical nature, attitude to romance and dislike of discussing their health, although one lady did findsomething complimentary to say."Fish-blooded," snapped Frau Godowska. "Without soul, without heart, without grace. But you cannot equal their dress materials. I spent a week in Brighton twenty years ago, and the travelling cape I bought there is not yet worn out?the one you wrap the hot-water bottle in, Sonia."I found most of the stories funny, but the bit that made me laugh the most was the narrator's refusal to pander to Fr?ulein Sonia when she fainted theatrically in the street in "The Modern Soul"."I am going to faint here and now."I was frightened. "You can't," I said, shaking her."Come back to the pension and faint as much as you please. But you can't faint here. All the shops are closed. There is nobody about. Please don't be so foolish.""Here and here only!" She indicated the exact spot and dropped quite beautifully, lying motionless."Very well," I said, "faint away; but please hurry over it."She did not move. I began to walk home, but each time I looked behind me I saw the dark form of the modern soul prone before the hairdresser's window. Finally I ran, and rooted out the Herr Professor from his room. "Fraulein Sonia has fainted," I said crossly."Du lieber Gott! Where? How?""Outside the hairdresser's shop in the Station Road.""Jesus and Maria! Has she no water with her?"?he seized his carafe?"nobody beside her?""Nothing.""Where is my coat? No matter, I shall catch a cold on the chest. Willingly, I shall catch one... You are ready to come with me?""No," I said; "you can take the waiter.""But she must have a woman. I cannot be so indelicate as to attempt to loosen her stays.""Modern souls oughtn't to wear them," said I. He pushed past me and clattered down the stairs.
    • 3/5
      This is a collection of short stories that are loosely tied to a group of guests who are "taking the cure" at a German pension. I liked them okay, but didn't love them. Some are darkly funny, but most are just depressing.
    • 4/5
      Mansfield is a great writer, she has facility and wit. The stories flow, they are about ordinary things, yet extraordinary.However, this collection contains a story - The Child Who Was Tired - that also appears in a collection of Chekov's short stories. This bothered me years ago and it still bothers me, along with V. Woolf's comment that K. Mansfield's fingernails weren't any too clean.