Katherine Mansfields Europe
Beautifully written and illustrated, Katherine Mansfields Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfields journals and letters, author Redmer Yska pursues the traces of her restless journeying in Europe, seeking out the places where she lived, worked and a century ago this year died. Along the way, he meets a cast of present-day Mansfield devotees who help shape his understanding of the impressions Mansfield left on their territories and how she is formally (and informally) commemorated in Europe. In Katherine Mansfields Europe, Yska takes us to the villas, pensions, hotels, spas, railway stations, churches, towns, beaches and cities where Mansfield wrote some of her finest stories. Hauntingly, these are also places where she suffered from piercing loneliness and homesickness, rooms in which she endured illness and extreme physical hardship, windows from which she gazed as she grappled with her mortality. With maps and stunning photography, this engaging and well-researched book richly illuminates Katherine Mansfields time in Europe and reveals her enduring presence in the places she frequented. Whether familiar or unfamiliar with Katherine Mansfields work and life, readers will find Yskas account of her travels and travails in Europe freshly informative and deeply moving.
Price:
NZ$ 50.00
paperback
272
170 x 230 mm
02-05-2023
02-05-2023
9781990048531
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