La signora Dalloway
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Tradotto da: Alba Bariffi
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Comprare i fiori per un ricevimento diventa per Clarissa Dalloway un’occasione per dare voce alla propria interiorità. In un flusso di coscienza ispirato all’esempio dell’Ulisse di Joyce, da lei definito un «grande, orribile libro», Virginia Woolf riesce a tessere in un’unica trama, e a concentrare nel breve arco di una sola giornata e in un solo luogo – Londra –, passato e presente, realtà e immaginazione. I gesti, il passo, l’aspetto delle persone che incontra sono piccoli avvenimenti quotidiani che come vere e proprie epifanie risvegliano in Clarissa impressioni e ricordi, e le restituiscono i frammenti di un’esistenza in continuo divenire.
Con La signora Dalloway, pubblicato nel 1925, Virginia Woolf ha firmato il suo capolavoro: un romanzo che, come scrive Attilio Bertolucci, non si potrebbe immaginare «più pieno di vita e di verità», e capace di immortalare, in un sapiente gioco di luci e di ombre, la fragilità e la precarietà della condizione umana.
- ISBN: 881181300X
- Casa Editrice: Garzanti
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 17-10-2019
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Experiencing Mrs. Dalloway is like being a piece of luggage on an airport conveyor belt, traversing lazily through a crowd of passengers, over and around and back again, but with the added bonus of being able to read people’s thoughts as they pass; this one checking his flight schedule, that one arg Leggi tutto
shoutout to virginia woolf for doing the lord's work (writing short books that make you look smart). this is a great interesting beautifully written compelling makes-you-think type book that usually has a gorgeous cover and can be read over the course of one lazy afternoon. no notes! bottom line: thank Leggi tutto
What a lark! What a plunge! There is a famous episode in the first section of Mrs Dalloway where a sky-writing aeroplane flies over London, soaring, spinning and plunging, writing in white letters of steam on a radiant sheet of blue sky. The onlookers on the ground, strolling down Regent’s Park and Leggi tutto
Queen of blah blah blah. 1920s, England. Wealthy fifty-one years old Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway walks the streets of London city and thinks about hosting one of her famed parties. Many socialites and part of the English high society are expected to attend. Peter Walsh, an old flame from the past, also
‘ Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. ’ Our lives are an elaborate and exquisite collage of moments. Each moment beautiful and powerful on their own when reflected upon, turned about and examined to breath in the full nostalgia for each glorious moment gone by, yet it is the compendium of m Leggi tutto
Virginia Woolf I hate you. There I said it. Some authors you just don’t get on with, and Woolf is right down the bottom of my shit list. I’ve got quite a few reasons why: Artistic slaying So there’s a trend with each and every new artistic movement which involves pissing all over the one that came bef Leggi tutto
[Revised, pictures add 4/24/22] Virginia Woolf set out to write an unconventional novel and succeeded, although since she wrote, we have read so many unconventional novels that it seems tame. In her introduction to the edition I read, Maureen Howard writes: “If ever there was a work conceived in resp Leggi tutto
While reading her works, I get the impression that Virginia Woolf knows everything about people and that she understands life better than anyone, ever. Is there a single hidden feeling or uncommon perspective with which she is not intimately acquainted? And does anyone else draw forth these feelings Leggi tutto
“So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying ‘that is all’ more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, That is all. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committin Leggi tutto
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