BOOKS FROM NEW ZEALANDLetters and Journals
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'Here then is a little summary of what I need - power, wealth and freedom. It is the hopelessly insipid doctrine that love is the only thing in the world... which hampers us so cruelly. We must get rid of that bogey - and then, then comes the opportunity of happiness and freedom.' So wrote one of our most gifted, but tragically short-lived, writers whose relatively small output has, nevertheless, exercised a powerful influence on modern fiction - indeed, Virginia Woolf confessed that hers was the only writing she was jealous of. Although these letters and extracts from Katherine Mansfield's journals deal with the 'tremendous trifles of life' - the funny, the ridiculous, the exasperating - they also inhabit a dimension that transcends the everyday as their author comes to terms with the problems of living and dying, with pain and fear and loneliness, with her own creativity, with friendship and, above all, with the enduring love she had for her husband.
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