![]() ![]() The writing of "Prelude" followed a visit from Mansfield's brother, with whom she shared memories of childhood, and it coincided with an awakening from artistic fatigue. In speaking about "Prelude" in another letter, Mansfield said, " just unfolds and opens." "As far as I know, it's more or less my own invention.") With a beginning in medias res and the lack of a sustained, overt plotline, the story proceeds by images clustering into symbolic patterns that stand in harmonic relationships to one another and that direct meaning. ![]() ![]() ("What form is it?" she asked a friend in a letter published in Letters. The story was revised and retitled by Mansfield, and collected in Bliss and Other Stories, apparently to bring it more in line with her growing appreciation of the form of the short fiction she was writing but had a difficult time defining. Katherine Mansfield's "Prelude" was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press under the title The Aloe. By Katherine Mansfield, 1920 (as The Aloe, 1918) ![]()
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