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Virginia Woolf

Door James King

Categorie
Secundair
Boeknummer
#201918
Titel
Virginia Woolf
Auteur
King, James
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
London : Hamish Hamilton Limited
Jaar van uitgave
1994
ISBN10
0241130638
ISBN13
9780241130636
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Virginia Woolf is one of the foremost writers of this century, yet surprisingly this biography is the first to fully explore the relationship between her troubled life and her novels, essays, book reviews, letters, and diaries - celebrated works that made her such a noted literary figure. All her life Woolf struggled with sadness that threatened to overwhelm and destroy her. In many ways her writings were attempts to counteract these powerful feelings and to grasp the healing forces of life. This was her central reason for writing: to investigate and curb her fascination with death and, at the same time, to capture the vitality of existence. The paradox was that such affirmation inevitably brought her back to the subjects she knew best: the destructiveness of men, the burdens of the past, ... (Lees verder)and the fragility of life. In this absorbing biography James King examines how the raw material of Woolf's daily existence was transformed into art, and he pays close attention to her search for forms of writing that encompass a new feminist aesthetic. Virginia Woolf sheds new light on this daring, impetuous, tormented artist, who strove relentlessly to find the right words to capture life's insubstantiality and its vibrancy.
Pagina's
699
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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