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

“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

A must read. Wonderfully crafted, delightfully insightful and dreadfully convicting. What drivel have I been reading? “On six pages of Proust we can find more complicated and varied emotions than in the whole of Electra. But in the Electra or the Antigone we are impressed by something different, by s Leggi tutto

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

These should probably be 3.5 stars. I've never been a massive fan of classic essays, because they tend to meander and I lose track of the thesis or what the point is. That said, I read it because I ADORE Virginia Woolf. I still like her novels better, but this was fun anyway.

Kinda lost her when she talked about translations, but otherwise insightful about the differences between modern English literature and the Greek classics.