Virginia Woolf

'A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' GuardianRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later, Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and women's attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's indomitable spirit, sophisticated wit and genius as an essayist. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michèle Barrett

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women’s literature, the text is also a triumph of imagination, with a celebrated passage envisaging the fate of a fictional sister of Shakespeare’s. A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One’s Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women’s rights and the struggles that still lie ahead.

The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy and then Greece. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed with a void in place of the central character if, indeed, the novel can be said to have a 'protagonist' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgam of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations. Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgam of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations.

Mot fyren är en av Virginia Woolfs mest lästa och älskade böcker och betraktas idag som en modernistisk klassiker. Här presenteras den i efterlängtad nyöversättning av Margareta Backgård, och med ett efterord av Annelie Bränström-Öhman, professor i litteraturvetenskap och genusvetenskap. Familjen Ramsay med gäster tillbringar sommaren på Isle of Skye på Skottlands västkust. Yngste sonen James drömmer om att få följa med till en fyr som hägrar i fjärran, men utflykten blir inte av. I Virginia Woolfs Mot fyren bildar vardagliga intryck och t­riviala händelser den enkla handlingens yttre ram men i­nom den byggs en hel värld av tankar, minnen och rela­tioner. Perspektivet skiftar och personernas tanke­flöden bryts mot var­­andra, spänningar och motsättningar blottläggs. Med känslighet, värme och lätt ironi skildrar Woolf mäns och kvin­­­­nors relationer under tidigt nittonhundratal, före och ef­­ter det världskrig som skakar om tillvaron. Könsroller och för­­­­äldraskap, såväl som skapandets villkor och varats förtäta­de ögonblick ryms i ett fängslande poetiskt drama. "Nu har den kommit i ny svensk översättning av Margareta Backgård. Först är jag misstänksam. Denna roman har blivit en del av mitt eget liv, Woolfs metaforer är så klassiska och hennes språk ibland lika klurigt som Prousts. Men Backgårds översättning är klar som vatten. Åter slås jag av nerven i Virginia Woolfs text, som aldrig bjuder på något som liknar en berättelse men ändå, snart hundra år efter att den skrivits, raserar gränserna mellan yta och djup." - Ingela Lind, DN"Denna välkomna nyöversättning av Margareta Backgård, den andra någonsin på svenska (den första gjordes 1953), fångar lyhört både rytm och ton hos originaltexten. I ett välskrivet efterord ges ett kortfattat porträtt av författaren samt en närmare inblick i romanen och dess betydelse för både dåtida och nutida läsare." - Marianne Berglund, BTJ"Virginia Woolfs språk är berömt för sin skönhet. Långa partier har poesins suggestiva kraft. Hennes syntax är ofta komplicerad och ordförrådet stort. Det säger sig självt att det är svårt att översätta. Samtidigt är hennes romaner till exempel på grund av de sömlösa övergångarna mellan olika tidsplan svåra att läsa i original om man inte har mycket goda språkkunskaper. Den nya svenska tolkningen av Margareta Backgård löper smidigt och gör den sällsamma, ofta drömska stämningen i Mot fyren god rättvisa." - Hufvudstadsbladet

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 Woolf’s most ambitious novel, showcasing her Modernist narrative techniques at their finest, The Waves casts a visionary and lyrical light on everyday life.

Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room is the story of a sensitive young man named Jacob Flanders. The life story, character and friends of Jacob are presented in a series for separate scenes and moments from his childhood, through college at Cambridge, love affairs in London, and travels in Greece, to his death in the war. Jacob's Room established Virginia Woolf's reputation as a highly poetic and symbolic writer who places emphasis not on plot or action but on the psychological realm of occupied by her characters.

En uvurderlig guide til Virginia Woolfs forfatterskab og et nærbillede af et passioneret kunstnerisk sind. Bogen er en redigeret udgave af hendes 26 private dagbøger, udvalgt af hendes mand Leonard Woolf efter hendes død. Samlingen består af de af Virginias Woolfs dagbogsnotater, som omhandler hendes egne bøger, det at skrive og den kunstneriske proces, såvel som modtagelsen af hendes værker. Der er passager, der bedst karakteriseres som skriveøvelser eller råmateriale til hendes forskellige bøger, skitser af scener, og skitser af personer og karakterer. Dertil kommer en lang række interessante kommentarer til og læsninger af andres bøger. Det første notat stammer fra 1918 og det sidste er nedfældet tre uger før hendes selvmord i 1941, et tidspænd der rummer et liv fuld af bekymringer, triumfer og kreative visioner. Bogens er oversat af Karsten Sand Iversen. Pressen skriver: »En uvurderlig guide til Virginia Woolfs forfatterskab og et nærbillede af et passioneret kunstnerisk sind.« – Den lokale avis » En stor tak til forlaget Rosinante for at udgive dette mesterværk, og for at genudgive nogle af Virginia Woolfs hovedværker! Den litterære verden ville ikke være den samme uden dem!« – bogblogger.dk »Her finder man Woolfs arbejds- og læsenoter, skarpe formuleringer af hendes poetik (at mætte hvert atom af øjeblikket), reportager fra bilrejse til Italien og udflugt til solformørkelse, portrætter af nære og bekendte med den pen, der både kan være følsom og spiddende.« – Information »Det er spændende sådan at få indblik i, hvad kunsten krævede af Woolf, og hvad hun tænkte om det og sit liv i det hele taget.« – **** Kristeligt Dagblad

First published in 1915, "The Voyage Out," Virginia Woolf's first novel, may be her most accessible. It is a witty social satire that chronicles the maturity of the young Englishwoman Rachel Vinrace as she takes a long voyage to South America from London on her father's ship. Rachel encounters an eclectic array of passengers on the boat and through them Woolf satirizes Edwardian life. This physical passage also becomes a journey of self-discovery for Rachel. She takes both a literal and mythical journey as she enters adulthood and moves from the sheltered world of her upbringing to the wide world full of potential and knowledge. While the novel is witty and satirical, it is also haunting and melancholic, with the beautifully flowing language uniquely characteristic of Woolf's writing. Many of the themes that come to dominate Woolf's later works, such as sexuality, consciousness, and death, are first explored in "The Voyage Out." Rachel's coming-of-age tale is that of the spiritual growth of a young woman that spans continents, a journey that paralleled that of Woolf's own life as she left her repressive upbringing to enter the world of art and intellectualism. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.

»En kvinna måste ha pengar och eget rum, om hon skall kunna skriva romaner.«Det revolutionerande med den var tilltalet: Ett eget rum [1929] är skriven av en kvinna för kvinnor. Manliga läsare tvingas läsa med kvinnors ögon, i en invertering av den traditionella manliga blicken. Virginia Woolf blandade historia med berättelse och memoar, i ett satiriskt »Oxbridge«, till en bok som kom att bli en av de mest banbrytande någonsin om kvinnans roll. Denna utgåva av Ett eget rum innehåller även essäerna »Att inte kunna grekiska« och »Hur skall man läsa en bok?«. I svensk översättning av Jane Lundblad. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882-1941] föddes i London. Med romaner som Jakobs rum [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], Mot fyren [1927] och Orlando [1928] blev hon en av modernismens förgrundsgestalter och räknas i dag till 1900- talets viktigaste författare. Som tänkare, med essäer som Ett eget rum [1929], har Woolf påverkat kvinnorörelsen i många länder. »I det museum som litteraturhistorien utgör har Virginia Woolf verkligen fått sig inrättat ett eget rum Joyce får nöja sig med att dela rum med T. S. Eliot.« | Bernur»Virginia Woolf måste räknas tillsammans med Joyce och Proust när det gäller de experimentella landvinningar som helt brutit med traditionen.« | The New York Times»Virginia Woolf fångar livets komplexitet på ett kongenialt sätt och kan använda tiden, könet eller staden man lever i för att beskriva människan.« | Lisbeth Larsson, Dagens Nyheter

På ön Skye i Skottland har familjen Ramsay sin sommar-villa. Tillsammans med några vänner planerar de en båt-uflykt till ett närbeläget fyrtorn. Men färden blir aldrig av, första världskriget kommer emellan och villan ligger öde, prisgiven åt naturen. Först tio år senare återvänder några av romanens gestalter till ön, och båtturen kommer äntligen till stånd ut mot fyren. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) är en av 1900-talets mest inflytelserika författare. Med sin på en gång fasta och fria komposition, sin känsliga uttrycksfullhet och sin hisnande pendling mellan olika tids-och känsloplan utgör Mot fyren en höjdpunkt i hennes författarskap. Lindskog Quality Classics är en serie utvalda klassiker gjorda med högsta kvalitet både vad beträffar innehåll och grafisk utformning.

Mrs. Dalloway (published on 14 May 1925) is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister," the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, 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. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to present. Margaret Drabble's novel The Middle Ground (1980) contains several allusions to Mrs. Dalloway.

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 young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. Virginia Woolf, an English writer, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an enormously influential gathering of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Their works and views deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, economics, and modern values and attitudes.

Lazy and indifferent, shaking space easily from his wings, knowing his way, the heron passes over the church beneath the sky. White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains. A lake? Blot the shores of it out A mountain? Oh, perfect--the sun gold on its slopes. Down that falls. Ferns then, or white feathers, for ever and ever... Virginia Woolf, an English writer, one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group, an enormously influential gathering of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Their works and views deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, economics, and modern values and attitudes.

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. Jacob eventually dies in the war and in lieu of a description of the death scene, Woolf describes the empty room that he leaves behind. The novel is a departure from Woolf's earlier two novels, The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919), which are more conventional in form. The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair. His time in London forms a large part of the story, though towards the end of the novel he travels to Italy, then Greece. Jacob eventually dies in the war and in lieu of a description of the death scene, Woolf describes the empty room that he leaves behind. The novel is a departure from Woolf's earlier two novels, The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919), which are more conventional in form. The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

'He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed 'Truth! Truth! Truth!' we have no choice left but confess - he was a woman.'A young man in the court of the ageing Queen Elizabeth I, the beautiful Orlando seems to belong everywhere and nowhere. One morning, Orlando awakens transformed - transported into the eighteenth century, and the body of a woman. One of the twentieth century's defining imaginings of queer identity, Orlando is a book of radical possibilities -boy and girl, past and future, nature and magic, life and history, love and literature. One of the most thrilling love letters in all literature, it trespasses thrillingly over the borders of place, time and self.

Rosalind og Ernest Thorburn har giftet seg i London under stor pomp og prakt. Men Rosalind har vanskelig for å venne seg til sitt nye liv som Mrs Thorburn. For ikke å miste seg selv i en stiv og konvensjonspreget tilværelse tar hun fantasien til hjelp. Sammen med mannen sin omdikter hun virkeligheten, og den distanserende tankeleken blir den egentlige tilværelsen. Men kan en fantasiverden redde ekteskapet?

'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'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. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.