{"product_id":"la-vida-de-violet-tres-relatos-tempranos-de-virginia-woolf-the-life-of-violet-three-early-stories","title":"La vida de Violet. Tres relatos tempranos de Virginia Woolf \/ The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIRGINIA WOOLF IN\u0026amp;Eacute;DITA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrreverente, radicalmente libre y llena de humor: la primera obra de ficci\u0026amp;oacute;n de Woolf es una apuesta por el poder subversivo de la amistad y la risa femenina.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp;laquo;Una Woolf joven e ingeniosa [...] capaz de jugar con lo c\u0026amp;oacute;mico y lo fant\u0026amp;aacute;stico sin perder profundidad. La habitaci\u0026amp;oacute;n anterior a la habitaci\u0026amp;oacute;n: el lugar mental donde la escritura, a\u0026amp;uacute;n secreta, comienza a tomar forma\u0026amp;raquo;. —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eViolet es una giganta risue\u0026amp;ntilde;a que ha nacido en la \u0026amp;eacute;poca equivocada. Pese a ello, esta mujer de poderes tan asombrosos como su estatura desprecia jovialmente las convenciones aristocr\u0026amp;aacute;ticas, construye una casa propia para sus amigas y viaja a Jap\u0026amp;oacute;n decidida a imaginar un nuevo orden pol\u0026amp;iacute;tico. Entre el cuento de hadas, la fantas\u0026amp;iacute;a y la s\u0026amp;aacute;tira social, \u003ci\u003eLa vida de Violet\u003c\/i\u003e dinamita la trama matrimonial victoriana y cuestiona la falsa elecci\u0026amp;oacute;n entre virtud y ambici\u0026amp;oacute;n, para celebrar la risa y la amistad entre mujeres como aut\u0026amp;eacute;nticas fuerzas transformadoras.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParte biograf\u0026amp;iacute;a ficticia de su gran amiga Violet Dickinson, parte experimento literario, esta es la primera obra de ficci\u0026amp;oacute;n de Virginia Woolf, escrita a los veintis\u0026amp;eacute;is a\u0026amp;ntilde;os, y un texto fundamental para comprender los or\u0026amp;iacute;genes de su pensamiento y de su universo creativo. Tras el hallazgo fortuito, en 2022, del manuscrito anotado y corregido por la propia autora, se publica esta obra, in\u0026amp;eacute;dita en castellano, acompa\u0026amp;ntilde;ada de un aparato cr\u0026amp;iacute;tico a cargo de Urmila Seshagiri, responsable de este feliz redescubrimiento.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eENGLISH DESCRIPTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Violet\u003c\/i\u003e blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers “as marvelous as her height,” gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building “a cottage of one’s own,” and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Violet\u003c\/i\u003e upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women’s friendships and laughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major literary discovery that heralds Woolf’s ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Violet\u003c\/i\u003e is first and foremost a delight to read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH Grupo Editorial","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback","offer_id":49740427952355,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9788426434197","price":131.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/45e263a7cd8c-9788426434197.jpg?v=1789569667","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/en-mo\/products\/la-vida-de-violet-tres-relatos-tempranos-de-virginia-woolf-the-life-of-violet-three-early-stories","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}