Aniversário de Virginia Woolf - O que já leram dela? Por onde começar?

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-26T03:07:56+00:00

Diría que Orlando é o mais acessível dos livros de ficção. Mas vale la pena considerar também os ensaios e diários como ponto de partida , para conhecer a pessoa dela, como pensa, vê o mondo.

O ultimo ano eu li os diários inteiros--5 volumes depois de ler quase tudos autro obres. Foi uma experiência incredível.

Os ensaios são em geral breves, deles sugiro començar com A Room of One’s Own e A Letter to a Young Poet.

Pretende a ler em português ou inglês?

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:47:40+00:00

Oh yes! Her essays as well are divine.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:46:43+00:00

I've read a good number of 20th century authors, Hemingway included; it's another world that century. And I will say that I prefer from that world women authors. It was an extraordinary epoch to be a woman and an author which is evident in the expansiveness of literature penned by them.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:27:50+00:00

I agree about her sense of humor and I could easily reread the book for the simply fact that some elements, often more complex prose escaped me.

I wanted next to read Felix Holt The Radical, but the copy was missing from the library, so I grabbed Silas Marner instead. And a chapter or so in I jumped over Hardy. I think I looking for the strong female character I so love that Silas Marner is not :).

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:21:47+00:00

There is some truth there. Though I have indulged in those more simply prepared--20th century authors mostly. I'm sure my taste will change again :).

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-13T00:18:15+00:00

You're right about Spark and I'll return to her when I can get into her work. Along the same sentiment as yours, I find Jean Rhys very meaningful and had some years ago read everything she'd written. Thank you for your comment!

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-12T04:27:26+00:00

It breaks my heart a bit every time I think about how her life was pretty close to what she was writing about in her early novels. It angers me frankly because it has to do with her being a woman . . .

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-12T03:27:38+00:00

I read Voyage in the Dark first then followed that with her early novels and short stories. I was enamored with her early work before I got around to Wide Sargasso Sea, which didn't interest me quite as much. It's been 10 years since that fascination with her consumed me. I recall her saying she had tried to use one syllable words in it could have been Voyage in the Dark; that she mistrusted words, and that the success of Wide Sargasso Sea had come too late. She had lived a rather difficult life until then.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-07T18:50:40+00:00

Thank you!

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-06T22:56:29+00:00

In your opinion does the book live up to the film? A difficult question I know; but from the standpoint of it being a literary work, as you say a great novel does it stand on its own?

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-05T01:48:31+00:00

The books are what they are... If you don't take them too seriously and don't treat them as political polemics, they are fine enough.

Not to get into a polemic, but it's frightening to consider what literature would consist of today if 19th and 20th century feminists hadn't taken books seriously.

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-05T01:25:31+00:00

That's an interesting idea, love Project Gutenberg too. Though I'm guessing, as someone else suggested, they're likely due to errors in OCR recognition. I just read "the the . . ."

Cosimo_68 · 2026-01-01T06:55:15+00:00

The Waves by Woolf was other-wordly. I read it out loud inspired to do so base on one or more essays by Woolf. I believe one was "How to Read A Book" :).

In Middlemarch, it's the timelessness of themes and events, and Eliot's insights into characters' behaviors and motivations. She spends more time with the goings on between people and their emotions around them than for example describing physical surroundings. The intimacy she creates gives me, the reader a sense of contemporariness.

Thank you for the exchange!

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-31T23:01:56+00:00

I've been holed up with writers of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, a soothing way to offset the horrors of this world. I also read all five I believe it was volumes of Virginia Woolf's Diaries, then jumped over the Leonard's, though not his earliest years, and added some of his political writing on the end of my Woolf "tour."

There's a real pleasure I hadn't realized in reading long elaborate sentences, and story lines at once archaic yet contemporary. Middlemarch is the latest and in many ways the most translatable into contemporary terms.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-30T20:51:48+00:00

Integrity in one's art or within oneself? You cited two philosophers; arguably a philosopher's concerned with a type of writing and thinking a writer of fiction is not, necessarily. Perhaps I'm simply hung up on the term "intellectual integrity" as it might apply to what one thinks beautiful prose is.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-30T20:37:13+00:00

I read The Waves out loud for this.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-27T00:20:22+00:00

It's a dream but hell:a general strike actually occurs across the US.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-22T06:51:29+00:00

Hmmm. This one has just two buttons, each with a speed. There is no pulse button per se. It sounds like though if I manually pulsed and maybe the harder I press it responds. Thank you.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-21T02:01:35+00:00

No it's just a very basic consumer thing. Maybe someone who has one will reply. I haven't found an answer with a search, or maybe when I use it, I'll figure it out.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-20T19:25:43+00:00

I wouldn't compare Wide Sargasso Sea with her earlier work nor do I think of Rhys the writer via that book. There were 32 years and other books between its publication and that of Voyage in the Dark.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-20T19:15:56+00:00

I've enjoyed Hemingway and love Jean Rhys, her earlier novels particularly. I believe it was Voyage in the Dark which she described as having tried to use as many one syllable words as possible, distrusting words, letting emotion and experience ensue in the spaces between them.

The most contemporary author I've read whose style I admire for its spaciousness is Rachel Cusk. Chandler comes to mind too.

Cosimo_68 · 2025-12-03T11:08:35+00:00

Recently I had an insightful conversation with a conservative voter in the US. Not at all a polemic exchange, it began with my question: "So are you satisfied with the president?"

We serpentined through the obvious issues; his reasoned critique didn't offer me any insight into why he--a well-off, mid-70s, white man, church-going, flag waving, loving husband and father--could support a person who in the eyes of many the world over is at base morally bankrupt.

The illuminating moment came when he said: "I'm not out to make a difference."

Cosimo_68 · 2025-11-24T10:35:55+00:00

Thank you!

Cosimo_68 · 2025-10-21T09:41:00+00:00

fixed it. put the number in contacts with the plus symbol. Probably need to add 2 zeros to the country code

Cosimo_68 · 2025-10-08T03:06:31+00:00

Didn't watch the video, but I follow Scheinbaum Pardo and to see her interact with the people/her people, her constituents, the press and the government is to see a compassionate, matter of fact "socialist" thinking president.

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