Virginia Woolf

Author, Journalist(1882-1941)

English author Virginia Woolf wrote modernist classics including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, as well as pioneering feminist texts, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in a privileged English household in 1882, author Virginia Woolf was raised by free-thinking parents. She began writing as a young girl and published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. She wrote modernist classics including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and Orlando, as well as pioneering feminist works, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas. In her personal life, she suffered bouts of deep depression. She committed suicide in 1941, at the age of 59. 

ART OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

Several years before marrying Leonard, Virginia had begun working on her first novel. The original title was Melymbrosia. In 1915 as The Voyage Out.

A year after the end of World War I, the Woolfs purchased Monk's House, a cottage in the village of Rodmell in 1919, and that same year Virginia published Night and Day, a novel set in Edwardian England. Her third novel Jacob's Room was published by Hogarth in 1922.

In 1925, Woolf received rave reviews for Mrs. Dalloway, her fourth novel.Woolf found a literary muse in Sackville-West, the inspiration for Woolf's 1928 novel Orlando, which follows an English nobleman who mysteriously becomes a woman at the age of 30 and lives on for over three centuries of English history. The novel was a breakthrough for Woolf who received critical praise for the groundbreaking work, as well as a newfound level of popularity.

In 1929, Woolf published A Room of One's Own, a feminist essay based on lectures she had given at women's colleges. The Waves (1931), which she described as "a play-poem" written in the voices of six different characters. Woolf published The Years, the final novel published in her lifetime in 1937, about a family's history over the course of a generation. The following year she published Three Guineas, an essay which continued the feminist themes of A Room of One's Own and addressed fascism and war.

 ADAPTATIONS & TRANSLATIONS

2002 - Hours

1992 - Orlando

•  1982 - Waaves;
• 1983 - On the lighthouse;
• 1990 - Own Room.

Virginia's novels were published not only in England but also in America, translated into 50 languages, including translations of writers such as Jorge Luis Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar. It is considered one of the best writers of the twentieth century, and advanced modernist writer. Wolf is considered a major innovator of the English language.

Publications o Ukrainian language:

• Wolfe V. Own space / Translated Jaroslav Cherdakli. - Kyiv: Alternatives, 1999.
• Wolf V. Women and narrative literature // Independent cultural journal "JI". - 2000.- № 17.
• Three guineas V. Wolfe / English translation. - Lviv Initiative, 2006.
• V. Wolfe Legacy / Translated by Natalia Demina // universe. - 2008. - № 9-10.
• V. Wolfe Waves / English translation Albina Pozdnyakov. - Lviv: Publisher A. Pozdnyakov, 2013. 
• Mrs. B. Wolfe Dellovey / translation from English. Taras Boyko. - K .: Komubuk, 2016.

               Top works:

1. Night and Day (1919);
2.  Jacob’s Room (1922);
3. Mrs. Dalloway (1925);
4. To the Lighthouse (1927);
5. Orlando: A Biography (1928);
6. The Waves (1931);
7. Flush: A Biography (1933);
8. The Years (1937);
9. Between the Acts (1941);
10. A Writer's Diary (1953).

Plot summary of Mrs.Dalloway: 

Clarissa Dalloway goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth spent in the countryside in Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband; she married the reliable Richard Dalloway instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh, and she "had not the option" to be with Sally Seton. Peter reintroduces these conflicts by paying a visit that morning. 

Septimus Warren Smith, a First World War veteran suffering from deferred traumatic stress, spends his day in the park with his Italian-born wife Lucrezia, where Peter Walsh observes them. Septimus is visited by frequent and indecipherable hallucinations, mostly concerning his dear friend Evans who died in the war. Later that day, after he is prescribed involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital, he commits suicide by jumping out of a window.

Clarissa's party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended by most of the characters she has met in the book, including people from her past. She hears about Septimus' suicide at the party and gradually comes to admire this stranger's act, which she considers an effort to preserve the purity of his happiness.

Interesting facts:   For searing prose of Virginia Woolf is not only a unique creative spirit and meandering turns of fate of the writer. Having lost in early adolescence, his mother and sister Stella, and she experienced more sexual violence by stepbrothers.
   Throughout her life Virginia struggled with bouts of deep depression. She was not allowed to headaches, voice, visions, there were several serious nervous breakdowns and suicide attempts. March 28, 1941 Virginia stones filled the pockets of his coat and drowned herself in the river.

 

online library:

•  http://loveread.ec/view_global.php?id=2247
• http://flibusta.is/a/13495