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"Al faro" (título original en inglés, "To the Lighthouse") es la quinta novela de Virginia Woolf, publicada el 5 de mayo de 1927. Esta novela es un hito del alto modernismo, el texto, centrado en la familia Ramsay y sus visitas a la isla de Skye en Escocia entre 1910 y 1920, habilmente manipula el tiempo y la exploracion psicologica.Al faro sigue y extiende la tradicion de los novelistas modernistas como Marcel Proust y James Joyce, donde la trama es secundaria respecto a la introspeccion filosofica, y la prosa puede ser retorcida y dificil de seguir. La novela incluye poco dialogo y casi ninguna accion; la mayor parte de ella esta escrita como pensamientos y observaciones. La novela recuerda el poder de las emociones infantiles y enfatiza la transitoriedad de las relaciones adultas. Entre los muchos tropos y temas del libro estan la perdida, la subjetividad, y el problema de la percepcion.

Virginia Woolf s masterpiece now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford Smith One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell shock and on the brink of madness Smith s day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax Virginia Woolf s masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923 Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter

"Una Habitación Propia" esconde la reflexión que la autora hizo para un ciclo de conferencias sobre la literatura y la mujer. El ensayo recorre la historia literaria de la mujeres, cuyo fin último es el de reivindicar para el genero femenino la posibilidad de ser admitido en una cultura que hasta entonces se habia mostrado como uso exclusivo de los hombres, en una sociedad inglesa de una pronunciada idiosincrasia patriarcal.En "Una habitacion propia" Virginia Woolf revela toda la evolucion de su pensamiento feminista.

Virgina Woolf s collection of writings on visual arts offer a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author Despite wide interest in Woolf s writings her circle and her relationship with the visual arts there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art This newest edition in David Zwirner Books s ekphrasis series collects such essays including Walter Sickert A Conversation 1934 Pictures 1925 and Pictures and Portraits 1920 These formally inventive texts examine the connection between the literary writer and the visual artist and are innovative in their treatment of ideas about color and modern art as experienced in picture galleries In these essays Woolf looks at the complex and interdependent relationship between the artist and society She also provides sharp and astute commentary on specific works of art and the relationship between art and writing An introduction by Claudia Tobin situates the essays within their cultural contexts

Obra cumbre de la narrativa de Virginia Woolf,Las olas es un clásico intemporal cuya lectura acompaña al lector a lo largo de los años como el recuerdo de un verano lejano e irrepetiblemente feliz.«V

Clarissa Dalloway, moglie di un deputato conservatore, prepara la sua festa per la sera; Septimus Warren Smith, sopravvissuto alla "grande guerra", nel frattempo passeggia con la moglie Rexia a Regent's Park in preda ai suoi deliri. Nulla sembra legare i due, se non la citta di Londra. I due senza incontrarsi, ma passando per gli stessi luoghi, tessono il filo sottile di corrispondenze, di echi ed emozioni che creano il romanzo.

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...