A Room of One's Own

Resumen del libro

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Carlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.

Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. If you enjoyed A Room of One's Own, you might like Woolf's Orlando, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.

'Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century'Hermione Lee, Financial Times

Biografía del autor

Virgina Woolf (1882-1941), figura destacada del llamado Grupo de Bloomsbury , destaca junto con James Joyce, Franz Kafka o Thomas Mann entre los grandes renovadores de la novela moderna. En sus obras más famosas, como "La señora Dalloway" (1925), "Al faro" (1927) y "Las olas" (1931), experimentó con la estructura temporal y espacial de la narración mediante un poderoso lenguaje narrativo en el que se equilibran perfectamente el mundo racional y el irracional de los sueños y los delirios. Pionera en la reflexión sobre la identidad femenina, la condición de la mujer y su relación con la literatura y el arte, Virgina Woolf plasmó su pensamiento en varios ensayos y en la inclasificable "Orlando" (1928), novela en la que reflexiona con humor no exento de denuncia acerca de las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres a través de las experiencias del protagonista, un joven aristócrata que de manera espontánea e involuntaria se transforma en mujer.