QUESTO LIBRO E A LAYOUT FISSOOpera in gran parte autobiografica, pubblicata nel 1925, ha come protagonista Clarissa Dalloway, una donna bella, nobile e snob e si svolge nellarco temporale di una giornata di giugno, in cui ella ha stabilito di dare un party con alcuni amici di famiglia.Attraverso lo stream of cosciousness, una sorta di monologo interiore che rispecchia il flusso spontaneo, asintattico dei pensieri, lautrice ci presenta i caratteri dei vari personaggi e le loro storie, procedendo per improvvise associazioni di idee che riportano alla mente della protagonista sporadici frammenti di passato.Lintera societa inglese, dalla borghesia, alla nobilta ai poveri e agli emarginati, scorre cosi innanzi al lettore, con tutti i pregi e i difetti, di cui Clarissa e il prodotto perfetto.Pensieri e sentimenti seguono il flusso disordinato e spontaneo della coscienza: ne consegue una dimensione del tutto particolare del tempo,che non e quello esterno, costituito da una serie di momenti disposti in una sequenza cronologica, ma quella dellinteriorita: ricordi del passato, sensazioni del presente, proiezioni verso il futuro si mescolano in un inestricabile amalgama.Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941) costituisce una della piu significative autrici del panorama inglese del Novecento. Tra le sue opere, si ricordano La stanza di Jacob (1922); Al Faro (1927) e Orlando (1928).
A Room of Ones Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published on 24 October 1929The title of the essay comes from Woolfs conception that, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".Woolf notes that women have been kept from writing because of their relative poverty, and financial freedom will bring women the freedom to write; "In the first place, to have a room of her own... was out of the question, unless her parents were exceptionally rich or very noble".The title also refers to any authors need for poetic license and the personal liberty to create art.The essay examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce work of the quality of William Shakespeare, addressing the limitations that past and present women writers face.
As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations about the present and lead her to assess the choices she has made in life and love. Her monologue interweaves with the account of the distress, on that same day, of the shell-shocked veteran Septimus Warren Smith, whose trauma and hallucinations end in tragedy, as the links between the two characters unfold.
Heralded as Virginia Woolfs greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a womans life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old.
Este pack incluye el libro Una habitación propia + libreta.
En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o p
Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.'The hour should be evening and the season winter, for in winter the champagne brightness of the air and the sociability of the streets are grateful'. In such conditions, Virginia Woolf takes to London's streets in search of a pencil. The account of her journey - the people, the places, the pleasure - soon becomes one of the great paeans to city life. This collection also includes other wonderful essays, such as 'How Should One Read a Book?' and 'The Sun and the Fish'.'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
