Virginia Woolf

"A good deal of the secret of the charm of Mrs Woolf's shorter pieces consists in the immense disparity between the object and the train of feeling which it has set in motion. Mrs Woolf gives you the minutest datum, and leads you on to explore, quite consciously, the sequence of images and feelings which float away from it. The result is something which makes Walter Pater appear an unsophisticated rationalist, and the writing is often remarkable. The book is one of the most curious and interesting examples of a process of dissociation which in that direction, it would seem, cannot be exceeded." T. S. Eliot String Quartet is a well curated collection of modernist short stories and flash fictions from an author who felt that "the only thing in this world is music - music and books and one or two pictures", and who, in her earliest years, humorously toyed with the idea of founding a colony "where there shall be no marrying - unless you happen to fall in love with a symphony of Beethoven". The stories in this collection, which include: The String Quartet, An Unwritten Novel, The Mark on the Wall, A Haunted House, Blue & Green, Monday or Tuesday, A Society, Kew Gardens, and Solid Objects, are experimental in nature and are quite straightforward examples of the fashionable Modernist stream of consciousness technique which Virginia Woolf was perfecting at that time. Virginia Woolf is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own, with its dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Virginia Woolf suffered from severe bouts of depression throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

Full text. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, a sensitive young man, 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. Virginia Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room established 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 av våre største moderne klassikere i strålende ny norsk oversettelse Tidlig en junimorgen går Clarissa Dalloway ut for å kjøpe blomster. Om kvelden skal hun holde fest. Huset skal fylles med fremtredende gjester. Selv er Clarissa nå i femtiårene, en sjarmerende og perfekt vertinne, og lykkelig gift. Likevel går tankene hennes denne dagen stadig til ungdomskjæresten Peter Walsh, som nå er ventet tilbake til London etter mange år. "Mrs. Dalloway" foregår i løpet av et enkelt døgn i London på 1920-tallet, en by som fortsatt er sterkt preget av hendelsene fra første verdenskrig. Gjennom sin spesielle stream of consciousness-teknikk lar Woolf romanens ulike karakterer komme til orde gjennom å skildre deres indre tanker og monologer. På denne måten kommer de forskjellige personenes liv til å krysse hverandre på de mest uventede vis. Det blir et innholdsrikt døgn der personlige minner og refleksjoner om livet får stort spillerom. "Mrs. Dalloway" er et av modernismens største og mest elskede hovedverk, og kommer nå på norsk i ny utgave ved Merete Alfsen, som med dette har oversatt sin åttende bok av Virginia Woolf til norsk, til glede for både nye og gamle lesere. Etterord av Inger Merete Hobbelstad

Set in the eponymous botanic garden in London on a hot July day, the narrative gives brief glimpses of four groups of people as they pass by a flowerbed. The story begins with a description of the oval-shaped flowerbed. Woolf mixes the colours of the petals of the flowers, floating to the ground, with the seemingly random movements of the visitors, which she likens to the apparently irregular movements of butterflies.

»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, DN»Mrs Dalloway sa att hon skulle köpa blommorna själv.«Så inleder Virginia Wolff sin berättelse om Clarissa Dalloway, en kvinna ur engelsk medelklass i mellankrigstidens London, som förbereder en fest hon ska hålla under kvällen. Genom inre monolog färdas berättelsen fram och tillbaka i tiden och mellan karaktärerna, samtidigt som bilden av Clarissas liv och mellankrigstidens sociala strukturer framträder. Mrs Dalloway är en tidlös klassiker, läst av generation efter generation, och tillhör den moderna litteraturhistoriens mest betydande verk med sin innovativa berättarteknik. I svensk översättning av Else Lundgren. 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 engelskspråkiga 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»En fantastisk bok som innehåller så mycket känslor och tankegångar.« Betyg 5 av 5 | Karins universum

Tre guineas, Virginia Woolfs radikala debattbok om kvinnokamp för fred, skrevs under spanska inbördeskriget och med världskriget hotande vid horisonten: Ögonblicket är kort: det kan vara fem år, tio år eller kanske är det bara frågan om några månader

"So of course," wrote Betty Flanders, pressing her heels rather deeper in the sand, "there was nothing for it but to leave." Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the mast of Mr. Connor's little yacht was bending like a wax candle in the sun. She winked quickly. Accidents were awful things. She winked again. The mast was straight; the waves were regular; the lighthouse was upright; but the blot had spread. "... nothing for it but to leave," she read.

Detta är en ny, modern översättning (2017) av detta klassiska verk av Virginia Woolf. "Hur ska vi enligt er uppfattning kunna förhindra krig?" - denna fråga, ställd i ett brev från en a­dvokat i London, utgör startpunkten för Virgini­a Woolfs essä Tre guineas som kom ut 1938. Fascismen och nazismen hade vuxit sig starka i Europa och ett storkrig tycktes alltmer hotande. I essäns tre kapitel analyserar Virginia Woolf det samband hon ser mellan kvinnors underordning, manliga hierarkier och ett samhälles disposition för krig. I brev till tre olika mottagare - två kvinnor och en man - presentera­r hon de belägg hon funnit för sina teorier och diskuterar, ofta med dräpande ironi och humor, möjliga vägar till förändring. Tre guineas är en lektion i kvinnohistoria men även en uppfordrande maning till motstånd mot fascism och militarism.

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is a modernist masterpiece that takes readers on a mesmerizing journey through the thoughts and experiences of its characters. Immerse yourself in Woolf's innovative narrative style and explore the complexities of human consciousness and societal expectations. Experience Woolf's lyrical prose and stream-of-consciousness storytelling. Engage with the inner lives of the characters and their interconnected narratives. Reflect on themes of identity, time, and the constraints of social conventions. Delve into Woolf's exploration of gender roles and the impact of World War I. This edition presents Woolf's groundbreaking novel with a beautifully designed cover, making it an essential addition to the collection of literary enthusiasts and fans of modernist literature.

In her 1919 work "Modern Fiction", Virginia Woolf explains her new approach to writing: " Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday." This last phrase "the life of Monday or Tuesday" is what Woolf believed to be at the core of fiction; and from it came the title of this, her first short story collection, and the only selection she published herself.