Quatre lettres cachées

by Virginia Woolf

la porte de tous, elles taient nanmoins dissimules dans un tiroir secret. Ce n'est que rcemment, lors d'un sjour au chteau de Vita Sackwille-West Sissinghurst, qu'une tudiante particulirement zle et passionne a exhum ces quatre lettres crites de la main de Virginia Woolf son amie et amante. Indites avant 1992, ces missives offrent aux admirateurs de Woolf un lment de plus dans la connaissance de l'univers intime de l'crivain. On y retrouve sa libert de ton dans ses conseils d'criture, ses anecdotes domestiques et ses fausses scnes de jalousie.

32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Reviews

[Inès]

''If Leonard were to fly I should feel the same, and you'd say, My dear Virginia, how foolish you are. Which I suspect is the truth. But I understand the folly.''

i love you virginia 🫶🏼

[marcjannas]

mmm ça me donne envie de lire toute leur correspondance, je n'imaginais pas cette dynamique entre elles, c'est intéressant