Name: Horas en una Biblioteca
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9786070762307

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Austral

Pages

368

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9786070762307

Edited in

México

Edition No.

2019

Synopsis "Horas en una Biblioteca"

La importancia de Virginia Woolf como novelista y como precursora del feminismo ha eclipsado su faceta de gran lectora y de crítica literaria fundamental, si bien a lo largo de su vida publicó con asiduidad en el Times Literary Supplement y en otras revistas literarias auténticas joyas ensayísticas por su finura en la apreciación de sus contemporáneos y los clásicos de la lengua inglesa, así como por el pulso firme con el que dialoga simultáneamente con el autor leído y con el lector futuro de sus textos. Esta compilación abarca toda su trayectoria, desde sus primeros desempeños en la crítica literaria y en el ensayo informal, o el esbozo literario, siendo todavía muy joven, hasta sus últimas y rigurosas piezas acerca de autores como Kipling, Melville, Dostoievski o Conrad, o a propósito del arte de la biografía, género hacia el cual seguramente se habría decantado su obra de no ser por su muerte prematura.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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