The Diary of Virginia Woolf V

Resumen del libro

With an introduction by Siri HustvedtFriday 30 October 1936. I do not wish, for reasons I cannot now develop, to analyse that extraordinary summer. It will be more helpful x{0026} healthy for me to write scenes; to take up my pen x{0026} describe actual events: good practice too for my stumbling x{0026} doubting pen.

Can I still 'write'? That is the question, you see. And now I will try to prove if the gift is dead, or dormant. The concluding volume of Virginia Woolf's diary covers the last five years of her life, ending four days before she committed suicide at the age of 59.

These final years were overshadowed by the untimely death of her nephew Julian Bell in the Spanish Civil War, and her own intermittent mental fragility. As another World War began to seem inevitable, writing itself often felt like a battle. Nevertheless, this period saw the publication of her novel The Years, the polemical essay Three Guineas, the biography of her friend Roger Fry, and the writing of Between the Acts.

This volume stands as a monument to Woolf's life and the enduring friendships of the Bloomsbury group. This Granta edition of Volume 5 contains the unexpurgated text for the first time.

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.