Bøger af Virginia Woolf

Leonardo Woolf, esposo de Virginia Woolf y editor de este libro dice: "Durante toda su vida, Virginia Woolf solía escribir, a intervalos, relatos cortos. Tenía por costumbre, cada vez que se le ocurría una idea para uno, esbozarlo de forma muy tosca y guardarlo después en un cajón. Más tarde, si un editor le pedía un relato corto y ella se sentía de humor para escribir uno (lo que no era frecuente), sacaba un boceto de su cajón y lo reescribía, a veces muchas veces. O si sentía, como le ocurría a menudo, mientras escribía una novela que necesitaba descansar la mente trabajando en otra cosa durante un tiempo, escribía un ensayo crítico o trabajaba en uno de sus bocetos para relatos cortos."En Una casa encantada y otros cuentos se encuentran los mejores relatos cortos ya publicados en Lunes o Martes -el único libro de cuentos publicados en vida de Virginia Woolf-, una selección de otros relatos cortos publicados independientemente y los mejores bocetos casi terminados que dejó antes de su muerte.Como en todos sus escritos, se escucha su voz inconfundible, su inteligencia emocional, y su posición ante los problemas sociales. Un libro tan relevante como cuando fue publicado, hecho de historias con finales inesperados, profundas y melancólicas, que muestran la complejidad de las relaciones con otros seres humanos y nuestro mundo.

""To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf's transcendent masterpiece, is a luminous exploration of the human psyche, the passage of time, and the inescapable nature of loss. Set against the rugged beauty of the Scottish coast, the novel follows the Ramsay family and their shifting relationships, as they navigate the joys and sorrows that punctuate the passage of time.Woolf's groundbreaking narrative technique weaves together the inner lives of her characters in a breathtaking tapestry of impressions, memories, and emotions. From the effervescent Mrs. Ramsay to her introspective husband, Mr. Ramsay, and their troubled artist friend, Lily Briscoe, Woolf delves into the hidden recesses of the mind, painting a vivid portrait of human experience in all its complexity and nuance.A profound meditation on love, art, and the ephemeral nature of life, To the Lighthouse showcases Virginia Woolf's mastery of the modernist form and her unparalleled ability to illuminate the depths of the human soul. Immerse yourself in the captivating world of the Ramsays and experience the evocative power of one of literature's most celebrated authors.""

Jacob's Room, a groundbreaking novel by the incomparable Virginia Woolf, is an innovative and beautifully crafted exploration of a young man's life, from his idyllic childhood to his untimely death. Through the use of Woolf's signature stream-of-consciousness style and intricate narrative structure, readers are granted an intimate glimpse into Jacob's inner world, as well as the lives of those he encounters along the way.Set against the backdrop of pre-World War I England, Jacob's Room examines the complexities of human relationships, the impermanence of life, and the intricacies of identity. As we follow Jacob through his experiences at university, his travels abroad, and his relationships with friends and lovers, we are confronted with the shifting and elusive nature of reality and the limitations of our understanding of others.A pioneering work of modernist fiction, Jacob's Room is a testament to Virginia Woolf's extraordinary talent as a writer and her ability to reveal the profound emotional depths that lie beneath the surface of everyday life. This compelling and evocative novel will captivate and challenge readers, leaving a lasting impression that lingers long after the final page.

First published in 1923 but failing to gain the same fame as her groundbreaking collection Monday or Tuesday, Woolf's short story In the Orchard is perhaps her most experimental, painting the same picture in three very different ways.

Virginia Woolf wrote "Mrs. Dalloway" in 1925 and printed it. Woolf is renowned for this particular work and for its narrative style of stream-of- consciousness. Here's a quick overview and analysis:In summary:The novel is set in London during just one day in June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is an upper class woman whose life it follows as she prepares for a function she is hosting later on that evening. The day advances as the story investigates the thoughts as well as memories of various characters, revealing elements of their the, relationships, and lives society where they find themselves.The plot centers around Clarissa's party preparations but also looks at Septimus Warren Spencer, a World War I veteran with shell shock (now known as PTSD). The world of Clarissa's upper class society is starkly different from his experiences and degraded psychological state.Analysis:The Stream-of-ConsCIousness Narrative: "Mrs. Dallow's" narrative style is characterised by a stream-of-consciousness format, and is among its most remarkable features. Woolf exposes the internal workings of her characters and effortlessly switches from one to another's ideas. The non-linear and associativ character of the human mind is reflected in this style, which captures its internal workings.

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf¿s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not -Woolf analyses the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time.

The fictional portrait of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one day to find himself transformed, astonishingly, into a woman. Over the span of three centuries, Orlando will fall in love many times and rub shoulders with the great artists and writers--and observe how differently history treats men than women. Bold and tender, Orlando is a truly multifaceted work that has been hailed as a satire of biography, a queer classic, and a loving portrait of an irrepressible spirit.

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento visionario, donde tópicos característicos del feminismo por casi un siglo (las conferencias fueron dadas en 1928 y el libro fue publicado un año después) son expuestos con claridad tal vez por primera vez.Alternando entre la ficción y una realidad que no quiso ser aceptada por cientos de años, Virginia Woolf imagina personajes, recorre la historia de la literatura hasta sus días, inquiere la economía y la sociología, y finalmente llega a conclusiones revolucionarias para su época que aún se encuentran en debate en nuestros días.Ya sea con fines históricos, o con la meta de actualizar los temas aquí tan claramente expuestos, el libro se convierte en una lectura esencial para toda persona interesada en el feminismo y en los debates por la identidad propios al siglo XXI.Escrito con maestría, inteligencia y coraje, esta nueva traducción facilita la comprensión y la difusión de una obra que no ha perdido su capacidad para provocar e inspirar.

Una habitación propia se estableció desde su publicación como uno de los libros fundamentales del feminismo. Basado en dos conferencias pronunciadas por Virginia Woolf en colleges para mujeres y ampliado luego por la autora, el texto es un testamento visionario, donde tópicos característicos del feminismo por casi un siglo (las conferencias fueron dadas en 1928 y el libro fue publicado un año después) son expuestos con claridad tal vez por primera vez.Alternando entre la ficción y una realidad que no quiso ser aceptada por cientos de años, Virginia Woolf imagina personajes, recorre la historia de la literatura hasta sus días, inquiere la economía y la sociología, y finalmente llega a conclusiones revolucionarias para su época que aún se encuentran en debate en nuestros días.Ya sea con fines históricos, o con la meta de actualizar los temas aquí tan claramente expuestos, el libro se convierte en una lectura esencial para toda persona interesada en el feminismo y en los debates por la identidad propios al siglo XXI.Escrito con maestría, inteligencia y coraje, esta nueva traducción facilita la comprensión y la difusión de una obra que no ha perdido su capacidad para provocar e inspirar.

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915. The protagonist, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provides Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey and Helen Ambrose is to some extent inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Rachel's journey from a cloistered life in a London suburb to freedom, challenging intellectual discourse, and self-discovery very likely reflects Woolf's own journey from a repressive household to the intellectual stimulation of the Bloomsbury Group.

It is 1880: after visiting his mistress in the London suburbs, Colonel Pargiter returns home to his children and his dying wife. In a series of snapshots we meet all the Pargiter siblings: twenty-year-old Eleanor, whose concern is to help the poor; her younger sisters Milly, Delia and Rose; her brothers Morris, Martin and Edward, who is at Oxford and in love with his cousin Kitty. As the years unfold, the various threads of relation, history and personal experience are woven into the tapestries of the characters' lives, forming a larger canvas that covers not only the story of a family, but that of two entire generations. The most ambitious of Woolf 's novels, and the last one to be published during her lifetime, The Years is a work suff used with a haunting, melancholy sense of time and history, and a stylistic tour de force.

Virginia Woolfin hauskin ja kepein teos! Klassikkoromaani leikittelee sukupuolella ja yhdistelee eri tyylilajeja. Orlando on nuori aatelismies, joka kasvaa 1500-luvun Englannissa. Hän kulkee kepeästi vuosisatojen halki ja kohtaa matkoillaan kunkin aikakauden suuria ajattelijoita. Orlando on kunnianhimoinen runoilija, joka viettää vapaa-aikansa kosiskelemalla hovien kauniita naisia. Kolmenkymmenen ikävuoden paikkeilla hän muuttuu äkisti naiseksi. Orlandon elämä muuttuu tyystin, naisia kun koskevat aivan erilaiset yhteiskunnalliset odotukset.Virginia Woolfin 1500-luvulta 1900-luvun alkuvuosikymmeniin ulottuva romaani liikkuu ajassa ja paikassa kiehtovasti, vailla rajoituksia. Feminismin klassikkona pidetty teos yhdistää fantasiaa, elämäkertatyylistä proosaa ja historiallista romaania. Yhtä vahvasti ovat esillä niin sukupuolen, taiteen kuin ajan teemat, sekä historia, jossa Orlando liikkuu kuin aikamatkustaja.Orlandosta on tehty vuonna 1992 samanniminen elokuva, jonka pääosassa nähdään Tilda Swinton. Lisäksi romaanista on tehty muun muassa näytelmä- ja oopperasovituksia.Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) oli englantilainen kirjailija, kriitikko ja tasa-arvon puolestapuhuja. Woolf on kirjoittanut useita teoksia, jotka ovat myöhemmin nousseet klassikoiksi, kuten Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando ja Oma huone. Häntä pidetään yhtenä 1900-luvun tärkeimmistä kirjailijoista.

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgam of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations. Plot summary Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge and into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy and then Greece........... Adeline Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Virginia Stephen was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child in a blended family of eight. Her mother, Julia Stephen, celebrated as a Pre-Raphaelite artist's model, had three children from her first marriage, her father Leslie Stephen, a notable man of letters, had one previous daughter, and four children were born in her parents' second marriage, of whom the most well known was the modernist painter Vanessa Stephen (later Vanessa Bell). While the boys in the family were educated at university, the girls were home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature. An important influence in Virginia's early life was the summer home the family used in St Ives, Cornwall, where she first saw the Godrevy Lighthouse, which was to become iconic in her novel To the Lighthouse (1927). Virginia's childhood came to an abrupt end in 1895 with the death of her mother and her first mental breakdown. This was soon followed by the death of her stepsister and surrogate mother, Stella Duckworth, two years later. The Stephen sisters were then able to attend the Ladies' Department of King's College, where they studied classics and history (1897-1901) and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Other important influences were their Cambridge-educated brothers and unfettered access to their father's vast library. Virginia's father encouraged her to become a writer and she began writing professionally in 1900. Their father's death in 1905 was a major turning point in their lives and the cause of another breakdown, following which the Stephens moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where they adopted a free-spirited lifestyle. It was there, that in conjunction with their brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. With Vanessa's marriage in 1907, Virginia became more independent, marrying Leonard Woolf in 1912. With Leonard she founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which published much of her work. In 1910, Virginia started to feel the need to have a retreat away from London, in Sussex, and following the destruction of their London home during the war, in 1940, the Woolfs moved there permanently....

Como otras obras de la autora, "Al faro" es también una de las obras más valoradas de la literatura del siglo XX. Basada en la propia infancia de la autora, narra la historia de la familia Ramsey en la isla escocesa de Skye, en el periodo de entreguerras. El rumor del mar, la presencia insomne del faro, la guerra, la muerte, el erotismo o el paso del tiempo se mezclan formando un oleaje de símbolos, palabras e imágenes.

2022 Reprint of the 1926 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "On Being Ill" is an essay by Virginia Woolf that appeared in T. S. Eliot's "The New Criterion" in January 1926. The essay sought to establish illness as a serious subject of literature along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. Woolf writes, "Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light...it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love, battle, and jealousy among the prime themes of literature. Novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no; ... literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear." Woolf explores the taboos associated with illness, and she discusses how illness transforms experience and changes our relationship to the world around us.

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Como otras obras de la autora, "Al faro" es también una de las obras más valoradas de la literatura del siglo XX. Basada en la propia infancia de la autora, narra la historia de la familia Ramsey en la isla escocesa de Skye, en el periodo de entreguerras. El rumor del mar, la presencia insomne del faro, la guerra, la muerte, el erotismo o el paso del tiempo se mezclan formando un oleaje de símbolos, palabras e imágenes.

Virginia Woolf's short story "The New Dress" was written in 1924 while she was writing the novel Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925. Critics have entertained the possibility that the story may originally have been a chapter of the novel because some of the same characters and events appear in both works. The story was published in the May 1927 issue of the monthly New York magazine the Forum. In the story, a deeply insecure and painfully self-conscious guest at a party is convinced that she is the target of mockery. Leonard Woolf later republished "The New Dress" in the collection A Haunted House in 1944, three years after Virginia Woolf's death. It was republished in 1973 in the collection Mrs. Dalloway's Party, with other stories by Woolf that focus on the guests and events of the day leading up to Clarissa Dalloway's party.

Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation.

Lunes o martes es la única colección de relatos que Virginia Woolf publicó en vida. Escritos en su estilo experimental, de flujo de conciencia, estos ocho relatos poco convencionales se alejan de la trama tradicional y el desarrollo de personajes en favor de pensamientos interiores, emociones, recuerdos y asociaciones.Desde las percepciones en vuelo de una garza en Lunes o martes hasta una pareja de fantasmas en busca de un tesoro en Una casa encantada, desde una meditación sobre el color como catalizador de la imaginación y las conexiones emocionales en Azul y verde hasta las historias inventadas de un narrador en un tren que observa a una compañera de viaje en Una novela no escrita, las exploraciones poéticas de Woolf llevan a los lectores en direcciones antes inexploradas, revelando una intensidad de sentimientos y una profundidad de percepción que seguirían caracterizando su obra posterior. Todo esto sin descuidar temas propios a Virginia Woolf tales como el feminismo y la salud mental.En conjunto, estas historias líricas y evocadoras crean un rico mosaico de la sensibilidad de la autora. Lunes o martes incluye Una casa encantada, Una sociedad, Lunes o martes, Una novela no escrita, El cuarteto de cuerdas, Azul y verde, Jardines de Kew y La marca en la pared.Esta nueva traducción al español permite la lectura en un lenguaje actualizado y ameno, haciendo justicia al original.

En La señora Dalloway Virginia Woolf relata un día en la vida de Clarissa Dalloway, una señora de la clase alta casada con un miembro del parlamento inglés, y de un ex-combatiente que lucha contra su enfermedad mental. La historia comienza y termina en Londres, en un mismo día de junio de 1923, y se desarrolla desde el momento en que Clarissa está preparando una fiesta en su mansión hasta que se retiran los invitados.La gran innovación de la novela es la corriente de consciencia: Woolf sigue el pensamiento de cada uno de los personajes, siendo excelente a la hora de narrar emociones, asociaciones e intrincados sentimientos entre las personas. Los grandes eventos de la vida son recordados y revisitados continuamente -la visita de Peter Walsch, su amante frustrado; el beso de Clarissa con su mejor amiga; la aparición de su amigo muerto, Evans, a Septimus; las tardes de verano en el campo y los destinos de cada uno de los amigos de Clarissa-.Los grandes temas de Virginia Woolf, tales como la presencia del pasado en el presente, las múltiples vidas que uno vive o puede haber vivido, la locura y la muerte o la perspectiva feminista son abordadas con frescura en un relato ameno que termina tejiendo la mejor novela de Virginia Woolf (y sin duda una de las mejores del siglo XX).En esta nueva traducción al español el lenguaje contemporáneo y la fidelidad al texto permiten disfrutar del libro más conocido de la autora; la edición bilingüe facilita la comparación del vocabulario y las expresiones propias a la consciencia psicológica en una de las formas literarias más originales y eficaces.

En Orlando: Una biografía Virginia Woolf da rienda suelta a una imaginación desbordante, creando una de las novelas satíricas más conocidas de todos los tiempos; no bastando con eso es un recuento histórico de la vida de la nobleza y de la literatura inglesa a través de casi cuatro siglos. Y aún así el mayor mérito de la novela es haber abordado, hace casi cien años, temas feministas y transgéneros que aún se encuentran en discusión en nuestros días.Orlando nace biológicamente masculino en la corte de Isabel I en Inglaterra pero un día, tras un largo sueño, se despierta como mujer y así continúa su vida. La narración muestra la paulatina aceptación por parte del personaje de su nueva condición, estudiando el papel de la mujer en la historia y la sociedad, incluso en temas éticos y morales (sexualidad, homosexualidad, derechos de la mujer) contrarios a la época en que fue escrito. Todo esto desde la perspectiva biográfica y desde el discurso femenino, una novedad dado que el género había sido mayormente utilizado por escritores hombres.La novela, sin transformarse nunca en un ensayo ni acercarse a dogmatismos, y sin perder su fino humor, se desarrolla por sí misma y, sin que nos hayamos dado cuenta, el mundo entero ha entrado en una narración que culmina en el momento presente (la narración termina en 1928, en el mismo día en que fue publicada por Hogarth Press, la editorial de Virginia Woolf y su esposo).Orlando es tanto un apto regalo de Virginia Woolf a su amante y amiga íntima, Vita Sackville-West -es un retrato poético de su amante-, como a muchas generaciones posteriores que encontraron en esta novela inspiración y liberación.Esta nueva edición al español es fiel al texto y a las intenciones de Virginia Woolf, eliminando las alteraciones introducidas en el relato por traducciones anteriores, mostrando así el espíritu revolucionario en su plenitud.

Set in pre-war England, Jacob's story starts when he is still a child, and the novel follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. Told mainly through the eyes of women in his life, Jacob's time in London forms a large part of the story, leading to the beginning of World War I.

Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives and romantic attachments of two acquaintances, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success.