Bøger af Virginia Woolf

Betty Flanders, veuve, trois enfants, Archer, le second Jacob, le dernier au berceau. Virginia Woolf écrit la vie de Jacob par petites touches légères successives, comme pour une aquarelle. Les portraits de l'entourage de Jacob au long de sa vie viennent éclairer sa personnalité.

Orlando est un jeune noble anglais. Lorsqu'il rencontre la reine Élisabeth Ire, elle décide de l'emmener à sa cour de Greenwich et, jusqu'à la mort de la reine, la vie d'Orlando est celle de son courtisan favori. Par la suite il reste à la cour de son successeur Jacques Ier. Pendant le Grand Gel de 1608, Orlando tombe amoureux de Sasha, fille de l'ambassadeur de Russie, qui l'abandonnera. Revenu dans sa demeure natale, Orlando fait l'étrange expérience de s'endormir pendant une semaine, à la suite de quoi il décide de partir comme ambassadeur en Orient. Là, il refait la même expérience d'un sommeil d'une semaine mais cette fois il se réveille femme. Dans son incarnation féminine Orlando passe quelque temps en compagnie de Tziganes à partager leur vie nomade, en appréciant la condition des femmes dans ces tribus itinérantes, la jugeant plus libre qu'en Angleterre. Elle n'en retournera pas moins à Londres, poussée par son amour pour la poésie. Son existence se partage alors entre la demeure natale, où elle a la possibilité de se consacrer à la poésie et de recevoir des poètes célèbres, et Londres, où elle fréquente indifféremment la bonne société et les prostituées. Orlando trouvera par hasard l'amour auprès de l'aventurier Lord Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine. Le roman se termine en 1928, très précisément «le jeudi 11 octobre 1928», alors qu'Orlando est devenue une femmeécrivain à succès grâce au poème qu'elle a écrit pendant une grande partie de sa vie et qui lui a valu un prix littéraire.(extrait de Wikipedia)

Île de Skye. La famille Ramsay, huit enfants, reçoit comme chaque année des amis. Puis la mort survient, celle de la mère et de deux des enfants, et la maison est abandonnée. Une dizaine d'années après, c'est le retour à la maison. Tout cela dominé, en toile de fond, par une promenade vers une île et son phare. Difficile de cerner les faits, ce texte est surtout une analyse des sentiments, un vagabondage des pensées de chacun des personnages du roman.

"A Haunted House" was first published in 1921 as a part of Virginia Woolf's short story collection Monday or Tuesday. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction.Collection Contains: A Haunted House;An Unwritten Novel;A Society;Blue & Green;In The Orchard;Kew Gardens;Monday or Tuesday;Mr. Bennett And Mrs. Brown;Mrs. Dalloway In Bond Street;The Mark On The Wall & The String Quartet.

Based on the events of a single day, a Wednesday in June 1923, Mrs. Dalloway is a unique book as its narrative skillfully interweaves unconnected storylines to take place on this fateful day. The story opens with Clarissa running an errand to buy flowers. Reactions of different people can be noticed when unexpected events keep occurring throughout the day. For example, a plane writing in the sky and a car emitting an explosive noise. Peter, her old partner, shows up not long after she gets home. During their conversation, it becomes evident that the two are still very much in love with one another. In a vulnerable exchange, Peter asks Clarissa if she's happy. Elizabeth, Clarissa's daughter, cuts them off before Clarissa can respond. The narrative then shifts to a World War I veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from PTSD. In order to meet Sir William Bradshaw, a psychiatrist, he is waiting with his wife, Lucrezia. Another perspective switch takes place and this time we get to experience Richard's narrative, who is going through an internal struggle with respect to his relationship with his wife Clarissa. The change in narratives keeps the reader on edge and leads to a conclusion which manages to bring everything together.

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

New editions of the complete diaries of Virginia Woolf, with introductions by a stellar line-up of contemporary novelists

Gabi has selected a superb range of poetry, prose and essays in this anthology. She offers an introductory overview which gives context to the selected contributions from women writing about the rise of the New Woman, and/or expressing their hopes for freedom and autonomy during the early part of the twentieth century.

Night and Day , has been regarded as significant work throughout human history, and in order to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to ensure its preservation by republishing this book in a contemporary format for both current and future generations. This entire book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not made from scanned copies, the text is readable and clear.

The novel is set on a Hebridean island, overlooked by a distant lighthouse, where Mrs. and Mr. Ramsay with eight children and assorted guests are enjoying the long summer. Mr. Ramsay is a tragic and self-pitying philosopher whose mind is rational but rather cold. Mrs. Ramsay is a beautiful, warm, creative and intuitive woman, the centre of the household. The novel focuses on the conflict arising from young James Ramsay's desire to visit the lighthouse and his father's quenching of this hope. But the summer ends, war and death bring changes. The next journey to the lighthouse is a very different one.

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is an incisive portrayal of a single day in the life of 51-year-old Clarissa Dalloway, the perfect high-society hostess, in post-World War I, England. As she prepares to host a party in the evening, she is flooded with memories of her youth in the countryside in Bourton, her choice of Richard Dalloway as husband over the intriguing and demanding Peter Walsh, amidst myriads of other things. A visit from Peter that morning reinforces Mrs Dalloway's pressing need to re-examine the trajectory that her internal and external lives have taken between the pull and push of the past and present, within a certain social structure.

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To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no direct action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family, living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. There's maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the highbrow Mr. Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests. From Mr. Ramsay's seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf examines tensions and allegiances and shows that the small joys and quiet tragedies of everyday life could go on forever. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relationships. Among the book's many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception.In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. The novel maintains an unusual form of omniscient narrator; the plot unfolding through shifting perspectives of each character's consciousness. Shifts can occur even mid-sentence, and in some sense they resemble the rotating beam of the lighthouse itself. Unlike James Joyce's stream of consciousness technique, however, Woolf does not tend to use abrupt fragments to represent characters' thought processes; her method is more one of lyrical paraphrase. The unique presentation of omniscient narration means that, throughout the novel, readers are challenged to formulate their own understanding, and views, from the subtle shifts in character development, as much of the story is presented in ambiguous, or even contradictory, descriptions.Whereas in Part I, the novel is concerned with illustrating the relationship between the character experiencing and the actual experience and surroundings, part II, 'Time Passes', having no characters to relate to, presents events differently. Instead, Woolf wrote the section from the perspective of a displaced narrator, unrelated to any people, intending that events be seen in relation to time. For that reason the narrating voice is unfocused and distorted, providing an example of what Woolf called 'life as it is when we have no part in it.' Major events like deaths of Mrs Ramsay, Prue, Andrew are related parenthetically, which makes the narration a kind of journal-entry. It is also possible that the house itself is the inanimate narrator of these events. (wikipedia.org)

Critically acclaimed as one of the most important books of the 20th century, "To the Lighthouse" is the modern and thought-provoking work by American author Virginia Woolf. Published in 1927 and inspired by the events of her own life and the stream-of-consciousness style of James Joyce and Marcel Proust, "To the Lighthouse" follows the Ramsey family as they visit their summer home in the Hebrides, on the Isle of Skye, over the course of a decade. The physical location and activities of the family members take a backseat to their internal thoughts and observations in this introspective and philosophical novel. The reader is given a peek inside the minds of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey and their children as they grapple with loss, disappointment, resentment, and the passage of time. While the summer home and its nearby isolated lighthouse change little over the years, the Ramseys are deeply affected by war, death, and loneliness. A fascinating novel that shows how deeply people live inside their own minds and emotions, "To the Lighthouse" explores the characters' inner lives through seemingly small and mundane moments, as their perceptions of their everyday lives slowly reveal who they truly are. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.