Scarica Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Virginia Woolf 1882 Father eminent Victorian man of letters, literary atmosphere Water represented two things: what is harmonious and feminine and the possibility of the resolution of intolerable conflicts in death. Mother death when she was young, nervous breakdown Father’s death in 1904 that Virginia began her own literary life and career. Bloomsbury In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf Attempted suicide by taking drugs. 1925 the novel Mrs Dalloway appeared, in which Virginia successfully experimented with new narrative techniques To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928) Was devoted to Vita Sackville-West, a novelist and biographer with whom she had an intense relationship. great impact on the feminist movement the inseparable link between economic independence and artistic independence She became haunted by the terror of losing her mind. Finally, she could stand it no longer and drowned herself in the River Ouse. She was fifty-nine (1941). Themes -Complex inner world of feeling and memory -The omniscient narrator disappeared -Point of view shifted inside the characters’ minds through fashbacks -Continuous flux subjective reality came to be identified with the technique called ‘streams of consciousness. Differently from Joyce’s characters, Woolf never lets her characters’ thoughts flow without control maintains logical and grammatical organisation Similar to Joyce’s ‘epiphanies’ are Woolf’s ‘moments of being’ they can see reality behind appearances Clarissa and Septimus 1. Their response to experience is always given in physical terms 2. Depend upon their partners for stability and protection Difference He is not always able to distinguish between his personal response and external reality. His psychic paralysis leads him to suicide, whereas Clarissa never loses her awareness of the outside world as something external to herself. James Joyce born Dublin 1882, large family, Jesuit schools graduated in modern languages little attraction for movements objective the freeing of Ireland His interest was for a broader European culture, European rather than an Irishman only way to increase Ireland’s awareness: by offering a realistic portrait of its life from a European, cosmopolitan viewpoint Paris, then Ireland, then Trieste friends with Italo Svevo, two children, fnancial problems moved to Zurich thanks to anonymous donations can write Ulysses Published as Finnegans Wake in 1939. Hitler’s advances in Europe forced the Joyces to fee from France to neutral Switzerland, writer died in 1941. Themes
