„Night and Day” by Virginia Woolf is her second novel and was published in 1919. But the novel is very forward-looking in its examination of relationships under the stress of the culture shift was occurring in the early 20th century. The story takes place in pre-war England and involves four characters and their relationships. Kathryn Hillbery the „middle class” privileged girl whose idea of success is marriage. Ralph Denham the „middle class” lawyer who supports his whole ...
Ten wybór różni się od dotychczasowych prezentacji eseistyki Woolf: pisarka nie występuje tu jedynie jako czytelniczka, recenzentka, komentatorka i teoretyczka literatury modernistycznej, lecz przede wszystkim jest „uwikłana w świat”: podróżuje, angażuje się w dyskusje nad ważnymi kwestiami społecznymi, domaga się prawa do „zintensyfikowanego istnienia” dla kobiet, dzieci i zwierząt, chadza do kina, na wystawy i na wiece protestacyjne. Stając w obronie tej „wszechogarniaj...
An amazingly soft film adaptation of the novel, it subtly merges the past and present, „here and there”, because it is the world of feeling, and it is feeling, and not dry logic that determines what is important and what is not, turning the moment into eternity, and a trifle in event.. The author describes only one summer day in the life of the prosperous socialite lady Mrs. Dalloway. A meeting with an old acquaintance, Peter Welsh, her first love, opens the door to the world...
The action of the novel „Years”, one of the most significant works of W. Woolf, takes place over fifty years – from the 1880s to the mid 30s of the twentieth century. Victorian traditions are breaking down, cars and planes are appearing, the First World War is covering Europe... All this serves as the backdrop for the family saga – the history of the Pargiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, lover, seven children, their wives, husbands, numerous relatives...
An exquisite novel in which times of action are mixed and intertwined, and the summer spent by the wealthy Ramsey family on the Isle of Skye turns out to be a kind of British „chronicle of lost time” – a fragile, almost idyllic time, doomed to be destroyed soon by the First World War. Children will grow up – someone will survive and grow up, someone will lay their heads on the battlefields. Small failures and grievances will be forgotten. The old house will be abandoned, the ...
W dorobku pisarskim Virginii Woolf listy stanowią szczególną pozycję. Podobnie jak dziennik, pisała je przez całe życie, często kilka dziennie. Do najbliższych, rodziny, przyjaciół, znajomych. Zachowało się ich ponad cztery tysiące, zarówno w zbiorach publicznych w Anglii i w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jak u osób prywatnych. Po obu stronach Atlantyku zostały wydane w sześciu tomach. „Pokrewne dusze” to wybór z tego sześciotomowego wydania. Otwiera go dziecinny list do ojca, pis...
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University, Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning three centuries, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and ...
With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence. Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of oth...
