Virginia Woolf, Essais choisis

Virginia Woolf, Essais choisis

Traduction et édition critique

Publication | Critiques

Résumé

Outre la grande romancière qu’on connaît, Virginia Woolf fut aussi une formidable essayiste. Comptes rendus, essais esthétiques, pièces plus expérimentales ou plus personnelles : ces textes nous dévoilent le dialogue ininterrompu de Woolf avec la littérature – celle de ses contemporains comme celle des classiques. On découvrira aussi une femme engagée – pour la cause des femmes, pour le monde ouvrier, contre la guerre.

L’essai est pour Woolf un lieu de confrontation avec la tradition littéraire, la culture mais aussi la société. Elle y affute ses arguments, peaufine son style, travaille sa voix. Inlassablement, Woolf réinvente les possibles de l’écriture.

Critiques

• “This important volume from an authoritative international team of authors sheds significant new light on the comparative development of post-war Conservatism in the western world.”
  – Stuart Ball, Professor Emeritus, University of Leicester, UK
• “The rich essays collected in this illuminating volume show that the rise of right-wing politics in the United Kingdom, the United States, and France since the 1970s was a remarkably transnational phenomenon. As they attacked social democracy and cultural pluralism, right-wing movements borrowed ideas, visions, vocabularies, and tactics from each other, adapting them to their own national idioms and using advances in one country to win advances elsewhere. Anyone interested in confronting the problems that have proliferated in the wake the right’s reconfiguration of politics – surging inequality, belligerent ethno-nationalism, worker disempowerment and insecurity, and lost faith in the capacity for democratic self-government – has much to learn about the origins of these problems from this important book.”
  – Joseph A. McCartin, Georgetown University, USA, author of Collision Course