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Las olas (The Waves)

Name: Las olas (The Waves)
Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9788426418302

by Virginia Woolf

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Overview

Desde 1931, año de su publicación, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales del siglo XX, tanto por la original belleza de su prosa como por la perfección de su revolucionaria técnica narrativa.

Synopsis

Obra cumbre de la narrativa de Virginia Woolf, Las olas es un clásico intemporal cuya lectura acompaña al lector a lo largo de los años como el recuerdo de un verano lejano e irrepetiblemente feliz.

«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor. Las olas debería leerse de rodillas.»
Milena Busquets

Desde que se publicara en 1931, Las olas ha sido considerada una de las obras capitales de la narrativa del siglo XX, tanto por la originalidad e hipnótica belleza de su prosa como por la perfección de su revolucionaria técnica, y, con el paso de los años, su influencia en la literatura contemporánea ha ido acrecentándose.

La novela desarrolla, al compás del batir de las olas en la playa, seis monólogos interiores que, como un tapiz a cada instante tejido y destejido, formulan el relato caleidoscópico de la vida de seis personajes desde su infancia hasta la vejez.

Reseñas:
«Virginia Woolf sentó las bases de la novela del futuro.»
Jeanette Winterson

«Igual que James Joyce y Marcel Proust dominó el manejo del flujo de conciencia de los personajes, pero ella añade un valor extra, la sensibilidad femenina.»
Maria Vargas Llosa

«Me enamoré de la novela, quería volver a empezar cada monólogo una y otra vez, y apretar contra mi pecho el libro a cada frase. [...] Las olas me hace pensar que si pudiéramos escuchar la voz interior de los otros nos sentiríamos menos solos.»
Javier Ambrossi

«Virginia Woolf es una de las autoras que más amo.»

Elena Medel

«Un texto musical -por la aliteración y por el ritmo- cargado de imágenes poéticas, un hito de la rompedora novelística inglesa de principios de siglo.»
El Mundo

« Las olas se ha considerado una de las novelas fundamentales del siglo XX. Y una de las creaciones más rompedoras e influyentes de la historia de la literatura occidental. Virginia Woolf mostró aquí gran parte de lo que era capaz, abandonándose a sus letras.»
Lara Siscar, Zenda Libros

About the Author, Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

The early decades of the 20th century saw the rise of the “experimental” novel, and few writers had more success with their experiments than Virginia Woolf. Her innovative approach as a novelist, critic, and biographer made her an author who is even more widely read today than she was in her own time.

Biography

Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her stepsister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favorite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid. With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). Her major novels include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).

Author biography courtesy of Penguin Group (USA).