2023-08-25 13:45:14
Katherine Mansfield was born in 1888 in Wellington, New Zealand. She died of tuberculosis in 1923 in Avon, near Fontainebleau. She was thirty-four years old. Mansfield, by instinct and taste, only wrote short stories. For lack of traces of her “encampment” on earth and because of numerous misunderstandings, Katherine Mansfield, the only one of whom Virginia Woolf admitted to having been jealous as a writer, fell into the common grave of oblivion.
Writing was his only line of strength. In the South of France, where she spent her last winters in suffering and solitude, she wrote her most beautiful texts. She seeks the right word, melodic perfection. She wears herself out there. But she finally discovers euphoria.
Henriette Levillain retraces with talent the life and work of this sensual woman, musician, in love with nature and freedom.
Henriette Levillain is professor emeritus at Paris-Sorbonne. Author of numerous books and articles, including Saint-John Perse (Fayard, 2013, Grand Prize for literary biography of the French Academy), she has more recently published Yourcenar, identity card (Fayard, 2016) as well as Virginia Woolf, ID card(Fayard, 2021).
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