Anniversaire : 25 janvier : Virginia Woolf.

ANNIVERSAIRE : 25 JANVIER

1882 : Naissance de Virginia Woolf

Documentation en ligne :

Vers le phare

de  Virginia  Woolf ,Françoise  Pellan (Traduction)  
 
Chusroniques et points de  vue

Description 
Une  soirée d'étésur une île au large de l'Ecosse. Pôle de convergence des  regards et des pensées, Mrs Ramsay exerce sur famille et amis un pouvoir  de séduction quasi irrésistible. Un enfant rêve d'aller au Phare.  L'expédition aura lieu un beau matin d'été, dix ans plus tard.  Entre©temps, mort et violence envahissent l'espace du récit. Au  bouleversement de la famille Ramsay répond le chaos de la Première Guerre  mondiale. La paix revenue, il ne reste plus aux survivants désemparés,  désunis, qu'à reconstruire sur les ruines.

SDM 
Pierre Nordon a  bien soulignéla minutieuse tendresse de cette ""élégie en prose"" dont le  point de départ est autobiographique (l'enfance de l'auteur dans ses  paysages) et dont les cinq personnages principaux sont à la recherche de  valeurs différentes: ""perfection poétique"", ""véritéscientifique"", ""alpha  et oméga de la pensée"", ""convivialitéet harmonie"", ""forme idéale du  tableau"". Préface, p. 7-31. Dossier: chronologie,... lire la suite sur amazon.fr en cliquant sur l’illustration

The Waves

de  Virginia  Woolf ,Debra  Parsons (Introduction)

Chroniques et points de  vue 
Audiofile 
This  narrative traces the lives and friendships of six childhood friends from  their childhood to their old age. It tells of the friends' true feelings,  which are often different from the ones they portray to each other. The  narration is done in a light, airy poetic voice by Frances Jeater, who  comforts the listener with her reading but fails to provide enough  differentiation to the characters, making it difficult to know who is the  focus of each point of the story. J.F.M. © AudioFile 2004, Portland,  Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Book  Description 
Woolf described this work  on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves  (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an  exploratory and sensuous narrative.

The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written during a highly  political phase in Woolf's career, when she was speaking on issues of  gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with  Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense.

The work is often described as if it were the... lire la suite sur Amazon.fr en cliquant sur l’illustration.

Virginia Woolf

de  Nigel  Nicolson

Chroniques et points de  vue

From  Publishers Weekly 
While most of  Virginia Woolf's biographers (with the possible exception of her nephew  Quentin Bell) bond with their subject through her vivid diaries and  fiction, Nicolson (Portrait of a Marriage), the son of Woolf's lover Vita  Sackville-West, draws on family archives and first-hand experience for his  brisk, dutiful biography. For the young Nicolson, Woolf first appeared as  a lively and amusing visitor. Not yet famous, to Nicolson she was like ""a  favourite aunt who brightened our simple lives with unexpected questions.""  Visiting Vita's stately home, Woolf might ask the young Nigel, ""What's it  like to be a child?"" by way of research for To the Lighthouse, or she  might make up histories for unidentified ancestral portraits as background  for Orlando, her love-letter fantasy to Vita. Such personal glimpses  enliven Nicolson's respectful position between various, often hotly  contended views of Woolf as writer, feminist and Bloomsburian. Despite his  insider's knowledge, which is nonetheless welcome, Nicolson manages to  offer an objective perspective on Woolf's parents and siblings and on her  childhood and youth. He is, however, less sensational than was Quentin  Bell on her mental illness and the notorious early episodes when one of  her half brothers examined her genitalia and the other forced his  affections on her. Nicolson filters Woolf's writing career through  VitaAand her opinions: she delighted in Orlando and was exasperated with  the hyperbolic polemics of Three Guineas, the 1938 pacificist tract that  was her penultimate work before her suicide. The world is no doubt weary  of Woolf biographies, but this tidy and homely little introduction will  sell to readers who may have been too intimidated by Woolf's modernist  reputation to broach her life and work before. 3-city author tour. (Oct.) 
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Audiofile 
Nigel  Nicolson's memoir of Virginia Woolf, whom he knew well, is a graceful and  interesting addition to the Woolf canon, but an American woman is a  peculiar choice for reader. Karessa McElheny has a beautiful voice, but  this is a book by an English man, who often addresses the reader in first  person, and it is about a thoroughly English setting and subject. McElheny  reads as if this were a second-rate novel, full of drama and jokes.  ""Hitler was now chancellor of Germany and had recently murdered... lire la suite sur amazon.fr en cliquant sur l’illustration.

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