Chronology Entry
Year
1988
Text
[Mansfield, Katherine]. Mi yue. Wen Jieruo, Li Zi yi. [ID D30032].
Wen Jieruo : "My response to Mansfield in the past is likely to have been influenced by Xu Zimo's article, with its emphasis on her physical beauty and early death. Kirkpatrick gave me a copy of Katherine Mansfield : short stories selected and introduced by Claire Tomalin, and I have read it. Tomalin selected twenty-one stories. I also selected twenty-one stories, of which ten were the same as hers. It doesn't mean that I disliked her selection of the other eleven. I didn't choose them because they had already been translated. She detested wars, and resolutely opposed letting her work be used to stir up nationalistic hatreds. Although she was weriously ill and needed royalties to pay the large medical fees for the treatment she was receiving at that time, she never allowed this book (In a German pension) to be republished in her lifetime."
Wen Jieruo praised The baron and The sister of the baroness for their ruthlessly ironic exposure of the 'snobbishness of the Bavarians at the beginning of this century', as well as the 'romantic ending' of A suburban fairy tale, for its emphasis on 'the young son's sympathy for hungry children outside their house'.
Wen Jieruo : "My response to Mansfield in the past is likely to have been influenced by Xu Zimo's article, with its emphasis on her physical beauty and early death. Kirkpatrick gave me a copy of Katherine Mansfield : short stories selected and introduced by Claire Tomalin, and I have read it. Tomalin selected twenty-one stories. I also selected twenty-one stories, of which ten were the same as hers. It doesn't mean that I disliked her selection of the other eleven. I didn't choose them because they had already been translated. She detested wars, and resolutely opposed letting her work be used to stir up nationalistic hatreds. Although she was weriously ill and needed royalties to pay the large medical fees for the treatment she was receiving at that time, she never allowed this book (In a German pension) to be republished in her lifetime."
Wen Jieruo praised The baron and The sister of the baroness for their ruthlessly ironic exposure of the 'snobbishness of the Bavarians at the beginning of this century', as well as the 'romantic ending' of A suburban fairy tale, for its emphasis on 'the young son's sympathy for hungry children outside their house'.
Mentioned People (2)
Mansfield, Katherine
(Wellington, Neuseeland 1888-1923 Fontainebleau) : Englisch-neuseeländische Schriftstellerin, Dichterin
Wen, Jieruo
Guiyang, Guizhou 1927-) : Übersetzerin
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Great Britain
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Literature : Occident : New Zealand
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. 28, 32. | Publication / Mans8 |