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Chargement... Kew Gardens [short story]par Virginia Woolf
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This is a short story that reads like an impressionistic painting in words. Just beautiful! ( ) Tres relatos de Virginia Woolf son los que componen este libro y que muestran lo que a ella le gustaba denominar momentos de existencia. En ellos, personajes y acciones quedan supeditados a imágenes poéticas, alejadas de las banalidades de la vida. En «Kew Gardens» ambientado en el fabuloso jardín botánico de Londres, nos introduce, como diría T. S. Eliott, en «un montón de imágenes rotas» que van desde el movimiento perezoso de un caracol a las conversaciones de los paseantes por el jardín. En «Una casa encantada», publicado por primera vez en la antología Monday or Tuesday, reescribe un tradicional cuento de fantasmas. Una pareja recibe la visita de unos espectros que ponen en evidencia el mundo de lo superficial. En el tercer cuento, «La marca en la pared», hace uso del monólogo escrito en primera persona para hacernos volar de un recuerdo a otro, teniendo como origen la marca en la pared de su habitación. Acompañan a estos magníficos cuentos las ilustraciones de Elena Ferrándiz, que consiguen sumergirnos en el personal mundo de Virginia Woolf a través de un trabajo lleno de metáforas y símbolos maravillosos. Kew Gardens was originally published with illustrations by Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister. I'd love to read that edition (or a reproduction, something that doesn't cost a hundred dollars). I imagine it would add another layer to this interesting slice-of-life story. Kew Gardens is very fluid, but I suppose that is just part of the Stream of Consciousness style. I think you have to be in the mood to read Stream of Consciousness/Virginia Woolf. She is not a writer you can casually pick up, I think. Her work requires a certain amount of focus. Kew Gardens feels like an escape from the city. Four different sets of people move in and out of the narration as they pass an oval flower bed in Kew Gardens. It's an observational story. The reader gets to watch these people (and the snail) and hear little snippets of their conversations. I enjoyed it and it's left me wanting to read more Woolf. Maybe next week I'll take on Solid Objects. If you want to sample Woolf, get a taste of her style, Kew Gardens is a great place to start. It's a wonderful and very short story. However, if you can't handle the style of Kew Gardens, I'd steer clear of To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. For me, Kew Gardens was a reminder of how much I enjoy Woolf. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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From the oval-shaped flower-bed there rose perhaps a hundred stalks spreading into heart-shaped or tongue-shaped leaves half way up and unfurling at the tip red or blue or yellow petals marked with spots of colour raised upon the surface; and from the red, blue or yellow gloom of the throat emerged a straight bar, rough with gold dust and slightly clubbed at the end. The petals were voluminous enough to be stirred by the summer breeze, and when they moved, the red, blue and yellow lights passed one over the other, staining an inch of the brown earth beneath with a spot of the most intricate colour. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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