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Night and Day / Jacob’s Room

Arnaldo Ageno — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:21:08 +0000

Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), portrays the gradual changes in a society,the patterns and conventions of which are slowly disintegrating; where therepresentatives of the younger generation struggle to forge their own way, for ‘… life has to be faced: to be rejected; then accepted on new terms with rapture’. Woolf begins to experiment with the novelform while demonstrating her affection for the literature of the past.
Jacob’s Room (1922), Woolf’s third novel, marks the bold affirmationof her own voice and search for a new form to express her view that ‘the humansoul … orientates itself afresh everynow & then. It is doing so now. No one can see it whole therefore.’ Jacob’s life is presented in subtle, delicateand tantalising glimpses, the novel’s gaps and silences are as replete withmeaning as the wicker armchair creaking in the empty room.

Il secondo romanzo di Virginia Woolf, Notte e giorno (1919), descrive i graduali cambiamenti in una società i cui schemi e convenzioni si stanno lentamente disintegrando; dove i rappresentanti della generazione più giovane lottano per forgiare la propria strada, perché “… la vita deve essere affrontata: essere rifiutata; poi accettata a nuovi termini con entusiasmo”. Woolf inizia a sperimentare con la forma del romanzo, dimostrando al contempo il suo legame con la letteratura del passato.
La stanza di Jacob (1922), terzo romanzo di Woolf, segna l’audace affermazione della propria voce e la ricerca di una nuova forma per esprimere la sua visione secondo cui “l’anima umana… si orienta di nuovo ogni tanto. Lo sta facendo ora. Nessuno può quindi vederla nella sua interezza”. La vita di Jacob è presentata in scorci sottili, delicati e stuzzicanti; le lacune e i silenzi del romanzo sono densi di significato come la poltrona di vimini che scricchiola nella stanza vuota.

The Waves

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:22:42 +0000

There was a star riding through clouds one night, and I said to the star, ‘Consume me’ Six friends traverse the uneven road of life together in Virginia Woolf’s most unconventional classic. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda and Susan first meet as children by the sea, and their lives are forever changed.

A poetic novel written in a lyrical way only Woolf could master, these narrators face both triumph and tragedy that touches them all. Throughout their lives, they examine the relationship between past and present, and the meaning of life itself. A landmark of innovative fiction and the most experimental of Virginia Woolf’s novels, The Waves is still regarded as one of the greatest works ever written in the English language.

Una notte c’era una stella che cavalcava tra le nuvole, e io dissi alla stella: “Consumami”. Sei amici attraversano insieme la strada accidentata della vita nel classico più anticonvenzionale di Virginia Woolf. Bernard, Jinny, Louis, Neville, Rhoda e Susan si incontrano per la prima volta da bambini in riva al mare e le loro vite cambiano per sempre.

Un romanzo poetico, scritto con un liricità che solo Woolf poteva padroneggiare, in cui questi narratori affrontano sia il trionfo che la tragedia che li tocca tutti. Nel corso della loro vita, esaminano il rapporto tra passato e presente e il significato della vita stessa. Pietra miliare della narrativa innovativa e il più sperimentale tra i romanzi di Virginia Woolf, The Waves è ancora oggi considerato una delle più grandi opere mai scritte in lingua inglese.

Mrs. Dalloway : A Norton Critical Edition

Arnaldo Ageno — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:26:33 +0000

This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald. A map of Mrs. Dalloway’s London.

An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her novels. The voices of other writers are also included, allowing readers to consider the literary passages that influenced Woolf’s art and historical moment. Eight reviews of Mrs.

Dalloway, from publication to the present day. A chronology and a selected bibliography. About the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers.

The three-part format—annotated text, contexts and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.