Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.
With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.
Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob’s Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women’s experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).
Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.
The Waves, more than any of Virginia Woolf's novels, conveys the complexities of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age.
While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that conveys the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself.
六个青年 六个个性 六种人生 一部小说 却没有任何描写 只有对话 海浪里营造的气氛 不是每个人都可以做到的 音乐性极强 实验性极强TVT
评分从日出到日落的九段时光,用以折射出六位主角人生的九段时光,没有主旨,没有中心,作者试图用每个人的意识空间来编织六段人生,亦可说是一段人生。 彷佛进入了层层叠叠的意识空间,是用着意识架起来的桥梁,而六个人互相之间似乎从未有过真正对话与动作的交流却又深知和融入彼...
评分“我显示出这样一副狡黠与嘲弄的姿态,目的是希望借此使你们不要注意到我的颤抖,我的脆弱,以及我的特别稚嫩、不加提防的心灵。因为我永远都是最为稚嫩的;最容易天真幼稚地大惊小怪的;我总是最先理解并同情那些使人不自在或者滑稽可笑的事情——不管是鼻子上的一块污迹,还...
评分一直么标
评分永远不知道何时能读懂的书
评分断断续续地读完了。像有一种让人窒息的美与沉重引着我读下去,看见日升,日落,海浪拍碎在绵延的岸上,人影幢幢而过。不知道下一次翻开这本书,会有怎样的另一番体悟...
评分pure poetry
评分彻底搞定…bye 呀_(:_」∠)_
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