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In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield
4.0
Read "Germans at Meat", "Frau Fischer" and "The Modern Soul" for class.
In A German Pension is a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories that Mansfield wrote while staying in a guesthouse in Bavaria before World War I. The stories focus mainly on an unnamed Englishwoman narrator and a few other German women as third-person narrators.
I really like the majority of these stories and the topics Mansfield tackles. She does a great job in imbuing the stories with topics that were generally ignored, such as rape and infanticide, and with topics that show the progression and hypocrisy of the times, like a man imagining he's suffering more than his wife currently giving birth and ladies outright stating the need for women to have babies in order to be complete, all the while expressing the modern thought existing in the narrator's mind.
Favourite stories are: "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding", "The Modern Soul", "The Child-Who-Was-Tired", "The Swing of the Pendulum" and "A Blaze".
In A German Pension is a collection of semi-autobiographical short stories that Mansfield wrote while staying in a guesthouse in Bavaria before World War I. The stories focus mainly on an unnamed Englishwoman narrator and a few other German women as third-person narrators.
I really like the majority of these stories and the topics Mansfield tackles. She does a great job in imbuing the stories with topics that were generally ignored, such as rape and infanticide, and with topics that show the progression and hypocrisy of the times, like a man imagining he's suffering more than his wife currently giving birth and ladies outright stating the need for women to have babies in order to be complete, all the while expressing the modern thought existing in the narrator's mind.
Favourite stories are: "Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding", "The Modern Soul", "The Child-Who-Was-Tired", "The Swing of the Pendulum" and "A Blaze".