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Bernard is a story-teller, always seeking some elusive and apt phrase. Some critics see Woolfs friend E. M. Forster as an inspiration for him.Louis is an outsider who seeks acceptance and success. Some critics see in him aspects of T. S. Eliot, whom Woolf knew well.Neville, who may be partly based on another of Woolfs friends, Lytton Strachey, seeks out a series of men, each of whom becomes the present object of his transcendent love.Jinny is a socialite whose world view corresponds to her physical, corporeal beauty. There is evidence that she is based on Woolfs friend Mary Hutchinson.Susan flees the city, preferring the countryside, where she grapples with the thrills and doubts of motherhood. Some aspects of Susan recall Woolfs sister Vanessa Bell.Rhoda is riddled with self-doubt and anxiety, always rejecting and indicting human compromise, always seeking out solitude. She echoes Shelleys poem "The Question" (paraphrased: I shall gather my flowers and present them O! to whom?). Rhoda resembles Virginia Woolf in some respects.Percival, partly based on Woolfs brother, Thoby Stephen, is the god-like but morally flawed hero of the other six. He dies midway through the novel, while engaged on an imperialist quest in British-dominated colonial India. Percival never speaks on his own in The Waves, but readers learn about him in detail as the other six characters repeatedly describe and reflect on him.The novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. Woolf is concerned with the individual consciousness and the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together.

Fino a quarantanni e oltre fui ossessionata dalla presenza di mia madre... Poi un giorno, mentre attraversavo Tavistock Square, pensai al Faro: con grande, involontaria urgenza. Una cosa ne suscitava unaltra... Che cosa aveva mosso quelleffervescenza? Non ne ho idea. Ma scrissi il libro molto rapidamente e, quando lebbi scritto, lossessione cesso. Adesso non la sento piu la voce di mia madre. (Virginia Woolf)

Gita al faro, tradotto anche come Al Faro, titolo che rispetta maggiormente loriginale To the Lighthouse, e un romanzo della scrittrice britannica Virginia Woolf, pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1927. Il romanzo segue e amplia la tradizione del romanzo modernista, in cui la trama ha unimportanza secondaria rispetto allintrospezione psicologica dei personaggi.Adeline Virginia Woolf, nata Stephen (Londra, 25 gennaio 1882 Rodmell, 28 marzo 1941), e stata una scrittrice, saggista e attivista britannica.Considerata come una delle principali figure della letteratura del XX secolo, attivamente impegnata nella lotta per la parita di diritti tra i sessi, fu, assieme al marito, militante del fabianesimo. Nel periodo fra le due guerre fu componente del Bloomsbury Group e figura di rilievo nellambiente letterario londinese.Le sue opere piu famose comprendono i romanzi La signora Dalloway (1925), Gita al faro (1927) e Orlando (1928). Tra le opere di saggistica emergono Il lettore comune (1925) e Una stanza tutta per se (1929); in questultima opera compare la celebre citazione: Una donna deve avere denaro, cibo adeguato e una stanza tutta per se se vuole scrivere romanzi.Traduttrice Giulia Celenza.

"So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave."Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connors little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun. She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread." nothing for it but to leave," she read.

Through a series of connected monologues, The Waves tells the story of six very different friends Bernard, Louis, Neville, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda as they progress from childhood to middle age. Interspersed with evocative descriptions of the seaside at different times of day, the poignant personal histories coalesce into a poetic tapestry of human experience.A commercial and critical success when it was first published in 1931, and now considered by some to be Virginia Woolfs most ambitious novel, showcasing her Modernist narrative techniques at their finest, The Waves casts a visionary and lyrical light on everyday life.

Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips.' On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax in Woolf's great novel of time, memory, war and the city. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers.

A Room of Ones Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two womens colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

Nothing is any longer one thing.From a teenage encounter with Elizabeth I, through infatuations, voyages and even a change of gender, Orlando lives out five centuries of life and love before they finally find the courage to truly be themselves.Neil Bartletts sparkling adaptation of Virginia Woolfs famous fantasy finds powerful contemporary relevance in her vision of equal rights to love for bodies of every kind and brings it to life on the stage with a kaleidoscope of theatrical styles, overseen by the haunting figure of Woolf herself.It premiered at the Garrick Theatre in Londons West End in November 2022, in a production directed by Michael Grandage and starring Emma Corrin in the title role. Written for a diverse ensemble of nine or more actors, this adaptation will appeal to any theatre or company looking to entertain their audiences with a bold new take on this iconic tale of love and transformation.

Consagrada y conocida sobre todo por novelas como "La señora Dalloway" (llevada al cine como "Las horas") o el reivindicativo texto "Una habitación propia", Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) cultivó también el campo del relato breve a lo largo de toda su vida. En ellos se pueden adivinar temas, personajes y recursos que mas tarde desarrollaria en sus novelas. La presente edicion de sus Relatos completos incluye tanto los publicados en vida de la autora, como los postumos e ineditos.Traduccion de Catalina Martinez MuñozConsagrada y conocida sobre todo por novelas como "La señora Dalloway" (llevada al cine como "Las horas") o el reivindicativo texto "Una habitación propia", Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) cultivó también el campo del relato breve a lo largo de toda su vida. En ellos se pueden adivinar temas, personajes y recursos que mas tarde desarrollaria en sus novelas. La presente edicion de sus Relatos completos incluye tanto los publicados en vida de la autora, como los postumos e ineditos.Traduccion de Catalina Martinez Muñoz

Nous sommes tous des poussi??res d''??toiles, nous sommes donc les enfants du temps.Couverture: Traduit de l''anglais par Clara Malraux