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Viviane Forrester Virginia Woolf (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Virginia Woolf
- Publication Name
- Virginia Woolf : a Portrait
- Title
- Virginia Woolf
- Subtitle
- A Portrait
- Translator
- Jody Gladding
- Contributor
- Jody Gladding (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0231153570
- EAN
- 9780231153577
- ISBN
- 9780231153577
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Genre
- Biography
- Subject
- Literary Criticism
- Release Year
- 2018
- Release Date
- 16/01/2018
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 11.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt award for biography, this remarkable portrait sheds new light on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her family and friends and how they shaped her work. Forrester weaves a colorful, intense drama that forces readers to rethink their understanding of Woolf, her writing, and her world.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231153570
ISBN-13
9780231153577
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237984980
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Virginia Woolf : a Portrait
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
11.4 Oz
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A thought-provoking portrait of the artist that strives to capture her fiercely strong life force pitted against impossible - if not improbable - odds., Intriguing.... Illuminating.... Readers interested in Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury circle, and early twentieth-century modernist writers will require this biography., Forrester should be commended for attempting to produce a portrait based almost entirely on primary sources, one that tries to get back to the essence of Woolf in her own words., [ Virginia Woolf: A Portrait ] offers unexpected insights and useful challenges to settled ideas about Woolf, her friendships, her marriage, and her imagination., Forrester should be commended for at- tempting to produce a portrait based almost entirely on primary sources, one that tries to get back to the essence of Woolf in her own words., Virginia Woolf was the object of considerable mystery. Viviane Forrester not only tells us about this mystery but clarifies it. At the beginning, the biographer announces that she will shatter equivocal and false portraits. She does precisely that. The result marks a decisive break in the knowledge we thought we had of this English writer. Forrester crosses the threshold of truth. Without reproving those who wrote before her, knowing what was said and how, Forrester provides a staggering analysis of the youth, marriage, work, and world of Woolf. She tracks, close up, the internal defense mechanisms and means of protection that veil the truth. In a style as poetic as the novelist/poetess deserves, Forrester throws light on the life and the death, Woolf's two tragedies, and reveals the price of her scintillating work., Over the years, Viviane Forrester has read and annotated all the journals of Woolf, the five volumes of her correspondence, including, among other things, the letters from her father, Leslie Stephen, and those from her sister, Vanessa Bell, whom Virginia idolized and envied her entire life. Such a considerable quantity of fragments of a vast, complex mosaic, assembled here by the biographer, provides a new vision of Woolf. We discover her close up, fleeing, uncatchable, by turn fragile, ferocious, resplendent, or perverse.... In a lively and limpid style, Forrester attacks first the myths that have calcified around Woolf. First among them, that of her 'madness.' Under the sharp pen of Forrester, therefore, Virginia is not mad, nor is she a martyr., Nimbly moving from one fragmentary impression to another, Forrester challenges the idea (proposed by Woolf's nephew, Quentin Bell, in his biography of her) that Woolf was afflicted with mental illness and suicidal impulses when she was a teenager. Instead, Forrester offers the portrait of a woman who strove to strip away any illusions and capture the rhythms of reality in her writings.
Original Language
French
Topic
Feminist, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey Decimal
823/.912 B
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
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