Un exquisito y sorprendente libro de viajes. Desde el Bayreuth wagneriano de 1909 hasa el londres finisecular, pasando por curiosas incursiones por España. Desde los poetas románticos hasta los isabelinos. La gran autora británica descubre geografías exteriores e interiores.
This story grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. It ranges over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted and imaginary sister, and over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity.
Aparte de ser una de las escritoras fundamentales de la modernidad literaria, Virginia Wool fue una gran viajera. En este libro se reúnen ensayos y diarios que la gran autora británica realizó a partir de sus viajes, y que no solo incluyen una descripcion de lo visto y vivido, sino tambien una aguda reflexion. Desde el Bayreuth wagneriano, visitado en 1909, hasta curiosas incursiones por España. Desde viajeros romanticos como Shelley y Woordsworth hasta excentricos como lady Hester Stanhope. Una obra imprescindible para conocer esta faceta apasionante de la celebre autora de Mrs. Dalloway y Una habitacion propia
Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic, bisexual, writer Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through three centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's present day. A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, "Between the Acts" is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The pageant, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts, are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, and author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf questions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive role of the artist.
