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Pictures is a 1917 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published under the title of The Common Round in the New Age on 31 May 1917 and later as The Pictures in Art and Letters in Autumn 1919. It was then reprinted as Pictures in Bliss and Other Stories. Miss Moss wakes up in the morning and she is hungry because she didn't have dinner the night before, nor is she going to have breakfast: she cannot afford it. Then her landlady turns up and gives her a letter hoping that it would be the rent, but it is note from an employment agency, saying they will get back to her.

Diplomacy by other means may, at times, sound heroic. A fight for principles and ideals carried out by young men armed to the teeth and directed by older men in pursuit of their own version of glory for themselves and their Nations. Right will triumph over wrong. But war can be an illusion, stirred up by schemers and opportunists to take something from other nations that may or may not be right. As blood and limb are sacrificed the true cost is seen but often set to one side as the dispute becomes embedded in emotions and reason falls away.

Contes du quotidien, les quatorze histoires réunies dans cet écrin conjuguent reviviscences d'enfance en Nouvelle-Zélande, échappées oniriques, portraits saisissants, émotions brutes et découverte de la mort et de ses avatars. Dans "Prélude", "Félicité", ou encore "Je ne parle pas français", le ressenti prend le pas sur l'action et se mettent à nu d'inquiétants rapports de force au sein même des relations les plus familières. Ce recueil a assis la réputation de Katherine Mansfield comme la plus grande virtuose de la nouvelle moderniste.