Chronology Entry
Year
1983
Text
[Mansfield, Katherine]. Mansifei'erde duan pian xiao shuo xuan [ID D30023].
Fang Ping schreibt im Nachwort : "… Fiction that exposes social maladies and reveals the dark sides of capitalist society usually belongs to the critical realist traditions. Mansfield was a woman writer with a profoundly artistic temperament. Although she clearly demonstrates in her writing that she is not the sort of artist who shuts herself up in the chamber of pure art – in her stories unfortunate women and suffering children appear again and again, characterized with care and sympathy – to her, art ought to be art in the final analysis. She wrote in the way an artist paints, taking particular care with colours, lines and composition. .. She experiences and represented life in a way that was unique to herself. She avoided employing naturalistic techniques to give a direct transcript of shocking scenes in real life… If Mansfield devoted all her talent and native intelligence to achieve a refined, transcendent, almost impassive style in her writing, she was not other-worldly, nor detached from any human feelings. She loved and hated, and she loved humane people… "
Fang Ping schreibt im Nachwort : "… Fiction that exposes social maladies and reveals the dark sides of capitalist society usually belongs to the critical realist traditions. Mansfield was a woman writer with a profoundly artistic temperament. Although she clearly demonstrates in her writing that she is not the sort of artist who shuts herself up in the chamber of pure art – in her stories unfortunate women and suffering children appear again and again, characterized with care and sympathy – to her, art ought to be art in the final analysis. She wrote in the way an artist paints, taking particular care with colours, lines and composition. .. She experiences and represented life in a way that was unique to herself. She avoided employing naturalistic techniques to give a direct transcript of shocking scenes in real life… If Mansfield devoted all her talent and native intelligence to achieve a refined, transcendent, almost impassive style in her writing, she was not other-worldly, nor detached from any human feelings. She loved and hated, and she loved humane people… "
Mentioned People (2)
Fang, Ping
(Shanghai 1921-2008) : Übersetzer
Mansfield, Katherine
(Wellington, Neuseeland 1888-1923 Fontainebleau) : Englisch-neuseeländische Schriftstellerin, Dichterin
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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Literature : Occident : New Zealand
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Translator
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2001 | Gong, Shifen. A fine pen : the Chinese view of Katherine Mansfield. (Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2001). S. 89-101. | Publication / Mans8 |