The Waves
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141182711 (0141182717)
Publish date: 2000
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I know I am supposed to love Virginia Woolf, and I am really trying to, but this is now my third go around with her and I just can't do it. This book was all but impossible for me. I do not get the love affair people have with her. Maybe my mind is not wired the right way to understand her writin...
Introduction, by Jeanette WintersonIntroduction, by Gillian Beer--The Waves
I am spellbound by Woolf's powers of description; she lays out a feast of adjectives and metaphors, weaving a shimmering tapestry of words, here forming a continuous surface without break of tone. Exposition is forbidden to intrude on the musical flow of language and the 'six sided' inner voice carr...
“No, but I wish to go under; to visit the profound depths; once in a while to exercise my prerogative not always to act, but to explore; to hear vague, ancestral sounds of boughs creaking, of mammoths, to indulge impossible desires to embrace the whole world with the arms of understanding, impossibl...
موج ها، اولین کتابیست که از ویرجینیا وولف خواندم. تنها با خواندن 10 صفحه اول شیفته آن شدم. خیلی متاسفم که اینقدر دیر شروع به خواندن آثار این نویسنده کردم.اولین برخورد من با کتابهای ویرجینیا وولف، چندین سال پیش، توسط یکی از دوستانم، بنفشه ب (کارشناس ارشد حقوق بین الملل- طرفدار حقوق زن) بود، کتاب یادد...
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