In The Garden Party, the author Katherine Mansfield presents a work rich with engrossing themes of connection, class, isolation, conflict and denial. Structured around an early afternoon garden party, the story has clear connections to the author’s own childhood and adolescence. The main character, Laura, is an idealistic young girl who wishes to cancel the planned afternoon gathering in the family’s garden when she learns of a nearby tragedy.
RÉFÉRENCE BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE :
« Je ne parle pas français », in Katherine Mansfield, félicité, traduit de l'anglais par J.-G. Delamain, préface de Louis Gillet, Paris, Stock, 1932, p. 57.