Non sapere il greco

On the whole, I would have to say, I enjoy reading Virginia Woolf’s critical and essayistic work as much as I enjoy reading the novels for which she is famous. Novels like Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) have long since established her as a leading figure among British modernist wr Leggi tutto

ironic how for an essay called On Not Knowing Greek that the way Virginia Woolf thinks and writes about poetry is very greek

com sempre, una mirada única i refrescant. tot el que toca ho converteix en poesia

“the way in which everybody has always behaved; and thus we understand them” “For none of these dramatists had the licence which belongs to the novelist, and, in some degree, to all writers of printed books, of modelling their meaning with an infinity of slight touches which can only be properly appl Leggi tutto

Gli ultimi 2 articoli sono oro!

loved the parts about the greeks and the russians :) beautifully written

Anche la critica letteraria, nelle mani sapienti di Virginia Woolf, si trasforma in un acutissimo punto di osservazione del nostro essere, uomini e donne, lettori e lettrici. Eschilo, Sofocle, Euripide ma anche Saffo e Platone non avrebbero cittadinanza tra chi non sa neppure come si pronunciassero