- Feuille d'Album
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 ". A revised version later appeared in "Bliss and Other Stories". [Katherine Mansfield, "Selected Stories", Oxford World's Classics, explanatory notes]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 talks to her as he hands an egg she has dropped from her bag back to her.
Characters in "Feuille d'Album"
*Ian French, a painter; likes to sit in cafés in
Paris . He lives in a studio.
*his neighbour, a girl his age, who goes out shopping on Thursdays.Major themes
*love-sickness perhaps.
Literary significance
The text is written in the
modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.Footnotes
External links
* [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/bliss/album.html Full Text]
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