Virginia Woolf
2) The Waves
En 1940, Virginia Woolf decidió formar un nuevo volumen de cuentos, al que incorporaría la mayoría de los relatos originariamente aparecidos en Lunes o martes, así como otros posteriormente incluidos en publicaciones periódicas, y algunos inéditos, Una Casa encantada, es uno de ellos.
8) Al Faro
9) Orlando
10) Kew Gardens
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity. Woolf addresses what she sees as the arrival of modernism, with the much cited phrase "that on or about December 1910 human character changed", referring to Roger Fry's exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. She argued that this in turn led to a change in human relations, and thence to change
... En este cuento, Virginia Woolf explora los matices de la música, de un modo acorde a sus propias impresiones.
Es decir, cuestionando y ahondando constantemente en esas impresiones. ¿Es la experiencia estética una fuga, una manera de escapar del mundo?
13) El Foco
Relato enigmático y poético que la autora lo reescribió muchísimas veces. Presenta a personajes en un momento de su existencia, que considera esencial, el azar determina que un pequeño gesto, en este caso el muchacho enfocando hacia la tierra por aburrimiento, pueda decidir cosas importantes.
14) In the Orchard
A girl named Miranda falls asleep in an orchard while reading a French novel. Her finger seems to be pointing to a sentence in the novel, which (when translated) means ‘Truly, this country is one of the corners of the world where young girls burst into laughter most readily’.
15) Lunes o martes
Lunes o martes, el único volumen de cuentos de Virginia Woolf que vio la luz pública durante su vida, en 1921.
17) Solid Objects
“Solid Objects” is a short story in which a man gives up his political career because he becomes fascinated with oddly shaped, sometimes luminous, sometimes opaque “solid objects.” The first object is discovered by his hand as it idly digs in sand at the beach and brings up an ocean-polished lump of glass.
18) Three Guineas
Three Guineas is a book-length essay by Virginia Woolf, published in June 1938. Although Three Guineas is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her earlier work, A Room of One's Own. The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both
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