Woolf: 493 books

« Dans ces conditions, bien entendu, écrivait Betty Flanders, enfouissant de plus en plus ses talons dans le sable, il n’y avait pas autre chose à faire que de partir. » Lentement amassée à la pointe de sa plume, une pâle encre bleue...

Pour Virginia Woolf, les livres doivent tenir tout seuls sur leurs pieds : ils n’ont besoin d’aucune exégèse pour être appréciés par leurs lecteurs. C’est vrai mais cela ne l’a pas empêchée – pour notre bonheur – de consacrer plus d’un article à ses confrères auteurs vivants...

Laissez le vent souffler ; laissez le pavot se semer lui-même et l’œillet s’accoupler avec le chou. Laissez l’hirondelle construire son nid dans le salon, le chardon jaillir du carrelage, le papillon profiter au soleil du tissu fané du fauteuil. Laissez les débris de verre et de porcelaine...

In Woolf’s last novel, the action takes place on one summer’s day at a country house in the heart of England, where the villagers are presenting their annual pageant. A lyrical, moving valedictory.

Mrs Dalloway dit qu’elle irait acheter les fleurs elle-même. Lucy avait de l’ouvrage par-dessus la tête. On enlèverait les portes de leurs gonds ; les hommes de Rumpelmayer allaient venir. « Quel matin frais ! pensait Clarissa Dalloway. On dirait...

OUVRAGE BILINGUE ! Nouvelle traduction annotée pour ce texte fondamental qui sera l’avant-dernier publié par Virginia Woolf de son vivant. Certainement l’un de ses plus frontalement engagés. À partir d’une question adressée à une femme à l’aube de la Seconde Guerre mondiale...

"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 género femenino la posibilidad de ser admitido en una cultura...

Womens Short Stories Volume 2. The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we...

Set against a backdrop of ecological, political and emotional turbulence, Seasonal Disturbances is a charged yet meditative exploration of the relationship between nature, the city and the self in the 21st century. An interrupted zuihitsu written on board a Dutch barge on the Thames explores the elemental...

Cicero’s philosophical works introduced Latin audiences to the ideas of the Stoics, Epicureans and other schools and figures of the post-Aristotelian period, thus influencing the transmission of those ideas through later history. While Cicero’s value as documentary evidence for the Hellenistic...

Birinci Dünya Savaşı'nın sonunda Londra. Sıcak bir yaz günü Clarissa Dalloway o akşam vereceği büyük partiye hazırlanmaktadır. Aynı gün Hindistan'dan beklenmedik bir ziyaretçi gelir: İlk aşkı Peter Walsh. Onun bu apansız gelişi uzak bir geçmişin anılarını, eski arkadaşlıkları...

One of the best examples of Woolf's modernist innovation, the story starts in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The narrative is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed Clara Durrant and the uninhibited...

A story of a young man named Orlando, born in England, briefly a lover to the elderly queen followed by an intense love affair with a foreign princess whose sudden departure leaves him heartbroken. Orlando resorts to writing his poem The Oak Tree, started and abandoned in his youth. He finishes the poem...

Virginia Woolf’un büyük bir tutkuyla edebi üretimde cinsiyetin rolünü irdelediği metni Kendine Ait Bir Oda, edebiyat ve tarihin maskülinitenin egemenliğinde olduğunu çarpıcı örneklerle gözler önüne seriyor.    (Tanıtım Bülteninden)