Feuille d'Album (short story)

Feuille d'Album is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in the New Age on 20 September 1917 under the title of An Album Leaf.[1] A revised version later appeared in Bliss and Other Stories.[2]

Plot summary

Ian French, a painter, cannot seem to fall in love with any woman. One evening, he spots a neighbour whom he feels attracted to. He then follows her while she is out shopping on a Thursday, and was talking to her while he had an egg in his hand and then gave her back.

Characters in Feuille d'Album

Major themes

Literary significance

The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.

Footnotes

  1. The New Age. Volume 21, Number 21. Retrieved on July 28, 2014.
  2. Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes

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