4.5
Tres Guineas
En respuesta a una carta en la que se le pedia su opinion sobre como evitar la guerra, Virginia Woolf analiza en profundidad la discriminacion de que es victima la mujer, y reivindica sus derechos a recibir la misma educacion que el hombre y a tener las mismas oportunidades profesionales y sociales, como base indispensable para la formacion de un mundo integrado, racional y pacifico. Solo entonces una mujer podra contestar a una pregunta como la que se le formula. Sesenta anos despues de su publicacion. Tres guineas no ha perdido su vigencia y es aun un documento imprescindible para entender muchos de los problemas a los que se ha enfrentado y se sigue enfrentando la mujer, un recorrido lucido por las pasiones de una inteligencia al servicio de la igualdad y la libertad, una radiografia implacable de una sociedad que, en muchos aspectos, sigue siendo la nuestra.
FictionLiterary Collections
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHEREditorial Lumen
LENGTH253
LANGUAGEES
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source][1].) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian][2]: > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outside the genre. I learned a lot from reading the ever-subversive Virginia Woolf. > I was 17 when I read [Orlando][3]. It was half-revelation, half-confusion to me at that age, but one thing was clear: that she imagined a society vastly different from our own, an exotic world, and brought it dramatically alive. I'm thinking of the Elizabethan scenes, the winter when the Thames froze over. Reading, I was there, saw the bonfires blazing in the ice, felt the marvellous strangeness of that moment 500 years ago – the authentic thrill of being taken absolutely elsewhere. > How did she do it? By precise, specific descriptive details, not heaped up and not explained: a vivid, telling imagery, highly selected, encouraging the reader's imagination to fill out the picture and see it luminous, complete. > In [Flush][4], Woolf gets inside a dog's mind, that is, a non-human brain, an alien mentality – very science-fictional if you look at it that way. Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail. I imagine Woolf looking down at the dog asleep beside the ratty armchair she wrote in and thinking what are your dreams? and listening . . . sniffing the wind . . . after the rabbit, out on the hills, in the dog's timeless world. > Useful stuff, for those who like to see through eyes other than our own. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf [2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39360W/Orlando [4]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39320W/Flush
4.5
Tres Guineas
En respuesta a una carta en la que se le pedia su opinion sobre como evitar la guerra, Virginia Woolf analiza en profundidad la discriminacion de que es victima la mujer, y reivindica sus derechos a recibir la misma educacion que el hombre y a tener las mismas oportunidades profesionales y sociales, como base indispensable para la formacion de un mundo integrado, racional y pacifico. Solo entonces una mujer podra contestar a una pregunta como la que se le formula. Sesenta anos despues de su publicacion. Tres guineas no ha perdido su vigencia y es aun un documento imprescindible para entender muchos de los problemas a los que se ha enfrentado y se sigue enfrentando la mujer, un recorrido lucido por las pasiones de una inteligencia al servicio de la igualdad y la libertad, una radiografia implacable de una sociedad que, en muchos aspectos, sigue siendo la nuestra.
FictionLiterary Collections
RELEASED1999
PUBLISHEREditorial Lumen
LENGTH253
LANGUAGEES
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source][1].) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian][2]: > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general literary language it becomes a jargon, meaningful only to an ingroup. Useful models may be found quite outside the genre. I learned a lot from reading the ever-subversive Virginia Woolf. > I was 17 when I read [Orlando][3]. It was half-revelation, half-confusion to me at that age, but one thing was clear: that she imagined a society vastly different from our own, an exotic world, and brought it dramatically alive. I'm thinking of the Elizabethan scenes, the winter when the Thames froze over. Reading, I was there, saw the bonfires blazing in the ice, felt the marvellous strangeness of that moment 500 years ago – the authentic thrill of being taken absolutely elsewhere. > How did she do it? By precise, specific descriptive details, not heaped up and not explained: a vivid, telling imagery, highly selected, encouraging the reader's imagination to fill out the picture and see it luminous, complete. > In [Flush][4], Woolf gets inside a dog's mind, that is, a non-human brain, an alien mentality – very science-fictional if you look at it that way. Again what I learned was the power of accurate, vivid, highly selected detail. I imagine Woolf looking down at the dog asleep beside the ratty armchair she wrote in and thinking what are your dreams? and listening . . . sniffing the wind . . . after the rabbit, out on the hills, in the dog's timeless world. > Useful stuff, for those who like to see through eyes other than our own. [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf [2]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice [3]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39360W/Orlando [4]: http://openlibrary.org/works/OL39320W/Flush
