In the peaceful months before the Great War, Mrs Ramsay’s numerous guests and eight children are all enjoying the long summer days on the Isle of Skye. Their feelings and thoughts form an ever-changing picture, in keeping with the unpredictable weather.
[lire la quatrième du livre To the Lighthouse]
Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Waves]
Ce nouveau titre de la collection Histoires faciles à lire en anglais rassemble des nouvelles de l’auteure britannique Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), figure de proue de la littérature moderniste du XXe siècle.
[lire la quatrième du livre Marriage material by Virginia Woolf]
Past, present and future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923.
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh, and dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood.
[lire la quatrième du livre Mrs Dalloway]
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.
[lire la quatrième du livre A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas]
Created from two short stories, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street and the unfinished The Prime Minister, the novel addresses Clarissa's preparations for a party she will host that evening. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.
[lire la quatrième du livre Mrs Dalloway]
'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness.
[lire la quatrième du livre To the Lighthouse]
Dans ce court texte écrit en 1926 pour la revue de T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf s'interroge sur cette expérience particulière dont personne ne parle, dont le langage peine à rendre compte, mais que tout le monde connaît : la maladie.
[lire la quatrième du livre De la maladie]
"Je suis faite de telle sorte que rien n'est réel que je ne l'écrive" écrit Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) en 1937.
Les textes de cet ouvrage, qui réunit psychanalystes et chercheurs en littérature anglaise, éclairent la singularité de l'écriture de Virginia Woolf, écriture si étroitement nouée à son histoire et qu'elle remet sur le métier d'un texte à l'autre.
[lire la quatrième du livre Virginia Woolf. L'écriture refuge contre la folie]
