Virginia Woolf
Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity. Woolf addresses what she sees as the arrival of modernism, with the much cited phrase "that on or about December 1910 human character changed", referring to Roger Fry's exhibition Manet and the Post-Impressionists. She argued that this in turn led to a change in human relations, and thence to change
...A girl named Miranda falls asleep in an orchard while reading a French novel. Her finger seems to be pointing to a sentence in the novel, which (when translated) means ‘Truly, this country is one of the corners of the world where young girls burst into laughter most readily’.
“Solid Objects” is a short story in which a man gives up his political career because he becomes fascinated with oddly shaped, sometimes luminous, sometimes opaque “solid objects.” The first object is discovered by his hand as it idly digs in sand at the beach and brings up an ocean-polished lump of glass.
En 1940, Virginia Woolf decidió formar un nuevo volumen de cuentos, al que incorporaría la mayoría de los relatos originariamente aparecidos en Lunes o martes, así como otros posteriormente incluidos en publicaciones periódicas, y algunos inéditos, Una Casa encantada, es uno de ellos.
6) Two Stories
En este cuento, Virginia Woolf explora los matices de la música, de un modo acorde a sus propias impresiones.
Es decir, cuestionando y ahondando constantemente en esas impresiones. ¿Es la experiencia estética una fuga, una manera de escapar del mundo?
9) El Foco
Relato enigmático y poético que la autora lo reescribió muchísimas veces. Presenta a personajes en un momento de su existencia, que considera esencial, el azar determina que un pequeño gesto, en este caso el muchacho enfocando hacia la tierra por aburrimiento, pueda decidir cosas importantes.
16) A Haunted House
Virginia Woolf's intention to publish her short stories is carried out in this volume, posthumously collected by her husband, Leonard Woolf. Containing six of eight stories from Monday or Tuesday, seven that appeared in magazines, and five other stories, the book makes available Virginia Woolf's shorter works of fiction.
The Mark on the Wall is written in the first person, as a "stream of consciousness" monologue. The narrator notices a mark on the wall, and muses on the workings of the mind. Themes of religion, self-reflection, nature, and uncertainty are explored. The narrator reminisces about the development of thought patterns, beginning in childhood. From Wikipedia.
The Common Reader is a collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, published in two series, the first in 1925 and the second in 1932. Most of the essays appeared originally in such publications as the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Athenæum, New Statesman, Life and Letters, Dial, Vogue, and The Yale Review. The title indicates Woolf’s intention that her essays be read
...19) A Society
“A Society” is about a group of girls who form a society. They vow that none of them will marry or have children until they can determine what men have been doing all the this time and whether it was worth it for women to spend their youth in bearing an raising them.