Prelude (1917) appeared as an individual publication from the Woolfs’ Hogarth Press. Her first collection was In a German Pension (1911), and two further collections of short stories were published in her lifetime, Bliss (1920) and The Garden-Party (1922). This yearning increased during the years of the First World War (1914-18), especially following the death of her beloved brother Leslie in a military training accident in France in October 1915. Lawrence, but it is also shaped by her life-long conflicted longing for her remote South Pacific homeland. Her allusive writing emerges from the experimental crucible of European modernism and invites comparison with her contemporaries Virginia Woolf and D.H. The New Zealand-born short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) worked within modernist and cosmopolitan circles in London in the 1910s. The moral emptiness of the older generation of men who survived the First World War, and supported its continuation, is exposed in the unnamed boss’s inability properly to mourn, let alone retain in his memory, his son’s death six years before at the Western Front. ‘The Fly’ bears all the trademarks of its author Katherine Mansfield’s style and approach-cool, nuanced, sharp, perceptive of human frailty. Prof. Elleke Boehmer in conversation with Sam Arnon talking about the text, looking especially at some of its imagery and ways of interpreting the character of the Boss.
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