On fiction

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Sinopse

‘Here, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling-place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious.’Her readings sensitive, her prose style elegant, authoritative and at times thoroughly opinionated, who better equipped than Virginia Woolf to ruminate on the art of fiction? In this selection of lesser-known essays on reading and storytelling, Woolf turns her critical gaze on treasured favourites including ‘the four great women novelists – Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot’, and unearths some less familiar talents. Her discussion of differing approaches to reading is characteristically forward-thinking, and pinpoints the joys of this favourite pastime, in all its guises.

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Autor: Virginia Woolf

Autor

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), nascida em Londres, tornou-se uma das mais importantes escritoras inglesas, conhecida também por suas resenhas literárias e posições feministas. Participava em Londres do grupo de Bloomsbury, com posicionamentos importantes no período entre guerras. Deixou vários ensaios, contos, biografias, uma extensa correspondência e romances, como Orlando e Mrs Dalloway.