Los artistas y la política

Escrito por Virgina Woolf y Virgnia Woolf

Narrado por Cecilia Bona

El arte y la literatura, en estos ensayos, aparecen como instancias democráticas y necesarias para un nuevo mundo. La idea de que un artista no puede y no debe separarse de su entorno es repetida una y otra vez en los textos, que nos muestran a una Woolf que cree en un mundo distinto al que conoció: una literatura y un arte nuevos. Solo podemos imaginar la reacción que tendría en una época donde la información es lo más fácil de conseguir. Pero sus palabras siguen llamándonos a apoderarnos de la literatura y a hacerla nuestra, en vez de dejarla en las manos de la elite. Como la propia Virginia dice: "la literatura no es terreno privado de nadie", así que no hay razones para no disfrutarla nosotros mismos. Ana María Álvarez

• Idioma: Español
• Editorial: Ediciones Godot
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 17 ene 2023
• ISBN: 9789878928708

Virgina Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie Stephen, a writer and critic. Homeschooled alongside her sisters, including famed painter Vanessa Bell, Woolf was introduced to classic literature at an early age. Following the death of her mother in 1895, Woolf suffered her first mental breakdown. Two years later, she enrolled at King’s College London, where she studied history and classics and encountered leaders of the burgeoning women’s rights movement. Another mental breakdown accompanied her father’s death in 1904, after which she moved with her Cambridge-educated brothers to Bloomsbury, a bohemian district on London’s West End. There, she became a member of the influential Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of leading artists and intellectuals including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and Leonard Woolf, whom she would marry in 1912. Together they founded the Hogarth Press, which would publish most of Woolf’s work. Recognized as a central figure of literary modernism, Woolf was a gifted practitioner of experimental fiction, employing the stream of consciousness technique and mastering the use of free indirect discourse, a form of third person narration which allows the reader to enter the minds of her characters. Woolf, who produced such masterpieces as Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One’s Own (1929), continued to suffer from depression throughout her life. Following the German Blitz on her native London, Woolf, a lifelong pacifist, died by suicide in 1941. Her career cut cruelly short, she left a legacy and a body of work unmatched by any English novelist of her day.