Roky
Roky je román Virginie Woolfové z roku 1937, poslední, který vydala za svého života. Sleduje historii rodiny Pargiterů od 80. let 19. století do poloviny 30. let století minulého. Přestože zde spisovatelka zachytila dobu tak dlouhou, próza není příliš rozsáhlá, vyprávění se zaměřuje spíše na drobné detaily životů postav. Román v překladu Zuzany Mayerové vychází česky vůbec poprvé.
…Myslím, že to bude něco úžasného. Musím být otevřená, odvážná. Chci zachytit celou současnou společnost, nic nevynechat: popsat fakta i vize. A vzájemně je propojit… Je to vůbec možné? … Jak dosáhnout hloubky a neustrnout v nehybnosti? Mě ale baví zdolávat tyhle překážky, a v přirozenosti je svěží vítr a síla. Mým cílem je obsáhnout nekonečnou šíři, nekonečnou intenzitu. Měla by tam být satira, komedie, poezie, próza – jak to všechno skloubit dohromady? Co třeba drama, dopisy, básně? … A nakonec všechno pokračuje dál běžným každodenním životem. Chci tam dostat milióny myšlenek, ale nesmí to být kázání – úvahy o historii, politice, feminismu, umění, literatuře – zkrátka shrnutí všeho, co znám, cítím, čemu se směji, čím pohrdám, co miluji, obdivuji i nenávidím…
V. Woolfová: Deníky; 25. dubna 1933) / Woolfová Virginia
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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'
At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941.
Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.
Flush
Virginia Woolf kisregényében képzelet és valóság keveredik: elbűvölő mese egy nemes cocker spánielről, aki 1842-ben látja meg a napvilágot, majd a betegeskedő költőnő, Elizabeth Barrett házába és szellemi körébe kerül. Kutyatolvajok ellopják, hátborzongató kalandokban van része a londoni alvilág bugyraiban, de végül váltságdíj fejében visszakerül úrnőjéhez. Miss Barrettet idővel megszökteti Robert Browning, a jeles költő, s így Flushból világlátott kutya lesz: megismeri Itáliát, és a firenzei Casa Guidi boltívei alatt lel nyugalomra. A kutyaperspektívából, remek humorral írt mű a korabeli angol entellektüel társadalom rendhagyó képét is adja. A szerző a többszintes (kutya- és költő-) életrajzot Elizabeth Barrett két Flush-verse és férjével folytatott levelezése alapján konstruálta, és az sem kerülheti el figyelmünket, ahogyan Woolf a szabad mezőkön boldogan vágtató kutya alakjával párhuzamban kibontja egyik kedvenc témáját, az értelmiségi nő felszabadulását az apák és férjek zsarnoksága alól.
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Genius And Ink: Virginia Woolf On How To Read
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E.
M. Forster among them. But one of the paper's defining voices was Virginia Woolf, who produced a string of superb essays between the two World Wars.
The weirdness of Elizabethan plays, the pleasure of revisiting favourite novels, the supreme examples of Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot and Henry James, Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad: all are here, in anonymously published pieces, in which may be glimpsed the thinking behind Woolf's works of fiction and the enquiring, feminist spirit of A Room of One's Own. Here is Woolf the critical essayist, offering, at one moment, a playful hypothesis and, at another, a judgement laid down with the authority of a twentieth-century Dr Johnson. Here is Woolf working out precisely what's great about Hardy, and how Elizabeth Barrett Browning made books a "substitute for living" because she was "forbidden to scamper on the grass".
Above all, here is Virginia Woolf the reader, whose enthusiasm for great literature remains palpable and inspirational today.
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax.
Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
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How Should One Read a Book
'Where are we to begin? How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?'Published for the first time as a standalone volume, Virginia Woolf's short, impassioned essay, How Should One Read a Book? celebrates the enduring importance of great literature. In this timeless manifesto on the written word, rediscover the joy of reading and the power of a good book to change the world. One of the most significant modernist writers of the 20th Century, Virginia Woolf and her visionary essays are as relevant today as they were nearly one hundred years ago.
Features a new introduction by Sheila Heti.
Orlando
First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time. Written for the charismatic, bisexual writer Vita Sackville-West, this playful mock biography of a chameleon-like historical figure is both a wry commentary on gender and, in Woolf's own words, a 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.
Edited by Brenda Lyons with an Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert.
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Tři guineje / Vlastní pokoj
V eseji Tři Guineje, která vznikla roku 1938, se Woolfová myšlenkově vyrovnává s hrozbou války a s otázkou, jak se má v dané situaci zachovat žena. Její nečekaná, pro mnohé provokativní odpověď, která odmítá přijmout zhoubnou dualitu fronty a týlu, se snaží proniknout klamavými zástěrkami onoho míru, jenž je pouze pokračováním války jinými prostředky, a vede k rozboru oné agresivity, jež hluboce proniká i sférami kultury a vzdělanosti a vybíjí se v ponižování žen. Vlastní pokoj, text přednášek pronesených roku 1928 na dvou anglických dívčích vysokých školách, se řadí ke klasickým dílům feministického myšlení. Otázka vztahu žen a literatury se stala Woolfové příležitostí k zamyšlení, ve kterém obratně využívala žánry literární analýzy, společenské kritiky, vyprávění a meditace a spojila vážnost s úsměvným nadhledem. Čtenář cítí, že i u Woolfové je tvůrčí duch onou "žhavou tavnou směsí" prostou zloby a slučující obě pohlaví, již nachází u Shakespeara, a právě proto její eseje zůstávají nadčasové.
To The Lighthouse - Vintage Voyages
Vintage Voyages: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. But as time passes, bringing with it war and death, the summer home stands empty until one day, many years later, the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse.
Orlando (EN)
Orlando is one of the most unforgettable creations of twentieth-century literature. He emerges as a young man at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and progresses, with breathtaking ease, through three centuries until, by now a woman, she arrives in the bustle and diversion of the 1920s. For Virginia Woolf, a leading figure of the Bloomsbury Group, Orlando was more than a fantastic flight of imagination.
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Between the Acts
'The future shadowed their present, like the sun coming through the many-veined transparent vine leaf: a criss-cross of lines making no pattern'
It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare for the annual village pageant that will be held in its grounds that day. It will tell the stories of English history, as it does every year. Yet the coming of war broods over the whole community, changing the meaning of past and present, and heralding a new act. Through her characters' passionate musings and private dramas, and through the enigmatic figure of the pageant's author, Miss La Trobe, Virginia Woolf's playful final novel both celebrates and mocks Englishness, and re-creates the elusive role of the artist.
Edited by Stella McNichol
With an introduction and notes by Gillian Beer
Selected Short Stories
'Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour - landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one's hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! ... Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard'
Virginia Woolf tested the boundaries of fiction in these short stories, developing a new language of sensation, feeling and thought, and recreating in words the 'swarm and confusion of life'. Defying categorization, the stories range from the more traditional narrative style of 'Solid Objects' through the fragile impressionism of 'Kew Gardens' to the abstract exploration of consciousness in 'The Mark on the Wall'.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Sandra Kemp
To the Lighthouse
ife, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach'
For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but, as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of their family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of all that had gone before.
The Waves
Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next'
Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form its narrative, the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, their awareness of unity and isolation. Separately and together, they query the relationship of past to present, and the meaning of life itself. Perhaps more than any other of Woolf's novels, The Waves conveys the endless complexities of human experience.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Kate Flint
Mrs Dalloway
'She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day'
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
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The Years
'There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves'
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringing gives way to a new world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing room to the air-raid shelter. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel is a celebration of the resilience of the individual amid time, change, life, death and renewall.
Edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson
