#Woolf

[ambxtxo]

donna tartt’s reading list

In an interview, Tartt lists her favorite authors and the names of a few works. I have listed the most popular works from each author and the specific ones she recommended as well.

Homer

The Iliad

The Odyssey

Greek Poets and Tragedians

Argonautica

Antigone

Prometheus Bound

The Oresteia

Medea

Oedipus Rex

The Bacchae

The Frogs

Dante

Inferno

Purgatorio

Paradiso

Shakespeare

“I went back and read Macbeth and Hamlet during the pandemic”

Macbeth

Hamlet

Dickens

“Dickens was a part of my familial landscape, the air I breathed.”

A Tale of Two Cities

Great Expectations

Nabokov

Pale Fire

Lolita

Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Swann’s Way

Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

The Brothers Karamazov

Yeats

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Borges

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

Edith Wharton

The House of Mirth

Ethan Frome

Evelyn Waugh

Brideshead Revisited

Helena

Salinger

Catcher in the Rye

Virginia Woolf

Mrs. Dalloway

Orlando

Edward St. Aubyn

The Patrick Melrose Novels

Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore

Norwegian Wood

Olga Tokarczuk

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Don DeLillo

White Noise

Underworld

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

The Rings of Saturn

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

The White Album

Other Specific Books

Memoirs d’Outre-Tome by Chateaubriand

Jigsaw by Sybille Bedford

All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski

A Balcony in the Forest by Julien Gracq

[gnossienne]

Pages from the diary of Lady Ottoline Morrell (feat. Virginia Woolf and TS Eliot), from Garsington May 27 (1926)

[kurolishitpost]

OMG, I finally finished this art. I've had this sketch in my folder for three months. All I have left is the Sapnap. Also In the posts below, you can find Dream :)

[bookmuseum]

“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”

—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

[weil-weil-lautre]

he felt the need of something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced amorous gales every evening about this time when he walked out.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando

[milkywaymd]

Видео. Lady Gaga video analis with translate.

Голова волка в рассказе одного русского классика.

"И через порог вбежала большая серая волчица с красными глазами и тяжелым брюхом, на котором трепались сосцы.

...

Странно стало и дико на душе у Егория: не задрала его волчица, а без страха доверилась, забежав в избу от непогоды. Егорий наклонился над волчицей, она подняла морду и лизнула в руку.

Тогда пал он на лавку, лицом к стене, и стал плакать на голос и биться головой.

Волчица ощенила двух волчат, перегрызла им пуповины и лапами подбила слепых детей к сосцам, чтобы сосали молоко.

Живо зачмокали волчата, и теплое молоко полилось на каменный пол.

Егорий долго смотрел на волчат, потом подошел, прилег и губами осторожно взял волчью грудь.

Волчица и Егория подбила лапой и, разинув рот, высунула влажный язык.

«Унизиться более невозможно, — подумал Егорий, — убить надо ее и самому помереть»." (с) (Егорий голодал несколько месяцев, поэтому и делает это)

Здесь писатель описывает первый раскол и переход к новому миру. Весьма болезненный..

Так же мне почему-то вспоминается сказка волк и семеро козлят. Где волк съедает козлят причем, ровно семь. Как и Персефона, съевшая в аду семь зерен граната.

Нам конечно же расскажут что волк это демон, и абсолютное зло. В том числе и американские конспирологи толсто на это намекнут. В реальности же волк-жертва-Персефона весьма глубокий и интересный персонаж. Символ рождения нового мира. И ухода.. С одной стороны травматичного, с другой неизбежного, для сохранения чего-то. Как ящерица, которая чтобы спастись от погони сбрасывает хвост.

The head of a wolf in a story by one Russian classic.

"And a large gray she-wolf with red eyes and a heavy belly, on which her nipples were fluttering, ran through the threshold.

Yegory felt strange and wild in his soul: the she-wolf did not tear him to pieces, but trusted him without fear, running into the hut from the bad weather. Yegory bent over the she-wolf, she raised her muzzle and licked his hand.

Then he fell on the bench, facing the wall, and began to cry loudly and beat his head. The she-wolf gave birth to two wolf cubs, bit through their umbilical cords and with her paws pushed the blind children to the nipples so that they would suck the milk.

The wolf cubs began to smack their lips lively, and warm milk poured out onto the stone floor.

Yegory looked at the wolf cubs for a long time, then came up, lay down and carefully took the wolf's breast with his lips.

The she-wolf pushed Yegory with her paw too and, with her mouth open, she stuck out her wet tongue.

"It is impossible to humiliate myself any more," Yegoriy thought, "I must kill her and die myself." (c) (He's been starving for months, so he does it)..

Here the writer describes the first split and the transition to a new world. Quite painful..

For some reason I also remember the fairy tale The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats. Where the wolf eats the kids, exactly seven. Like Persephone, who ate seven pomegranate seeds in hell.

Of course, we will be told that the wolf is a demon, and absolute evil. Including American conspiracy theorists will hint at this. In reality, the wolf-victim-Persephone is a very deep and interesting character. A symbol of the birth of a new world. And departure.. On the one hand, traumatic, on the other, inevitable, to preserve something. Like a lizard that sheds its tail to escape pursuit..

Капитолийская волчица. Мать допотопного мира Рима-Руси с двоичным кодом. Мы сейчас, если что, живем в троичном.

Capitoline wolf. Mother of the antediluvian world of Rome-Rus with a binary code. We now, if anything, live in a ternary.

Она же, по версии англо-саксов.

The same, according to the Anglo-Saxons.

[booksandglitter]

"what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?"

📚finally finished Orlando by Virginia Woolf!!📚 my first book by her and I really liked it! I gave it 4 stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ the prose is incredibly rich, which can be difficult to read at times honestly, and the story of Orlando's life was really interesting I read this for uni to write an essay on it and there are so many interesting bits in it that would be amazing to analyse!!! I'm so happy to be excited ablout a research project again🙂‍↕️ this modernist fictional biography is very queer and if you don't mind the dense prose and some cultural insensitivity (cause it's from the 1920s) I would really recommend this!

[dk-thrive]

My literary heroes who were known to keep a diary: TOLSTOY; THOREAU; WOOLF; CORNELL. To be like Thoreau and write everything down. Then to return like a ship to the same diary page.

— Orhan Pamuk, "Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks, 2009-2022." Translated by Ekin Oklap. (Knopf, November 26, 2024)

[libriaco]

Sono animali

Non si possono metter al mondo figli, in un mondo come questo. Non si può e non si deve perpetuare la sofferenza, né incrementare la razza di questi lussuriosi animali, che non hanno sentimenti duraturi, ma solo capricci, soltanto vane voglie, che li trascinano, or qua, or là.

V. Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway [1925], Roma, Newton Compton, 2011 [Trad. P. F. Paolini]

[woolf-comic-by-kittyxdragon]

i’ll post more Woolf stuff tmrw but here’s ur first char

[bookmuseum]

“It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.”

—Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

Virginia Woolf

[loneberry]

My ranking of Virginia Woolf’s novels

(Excludes non-fiction and short stories)

The Waves (1931)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Orlando: A Biography (1928)

Jacob's Room (1922) (Maybe tied with Orlando?)

Night and Day (1919) (underrated, imo)

The Years (1937)

The Voyage Out (1915)

Between the Acts (1941)

A monumental oeuvre…unparalleled in literary history. Yet it pains me to think about how much it cost her, to turn her mind into a prism to refract all this light: a spray of colors, a nervous breakdown after the composition of every book....

In 11th grade my AP Composition teacher would call me “Mrs. Dalloway” because he spotted me carrying a tattered copy of that book with me to class. In truth I found the book terribly boring then, being a crusty, hotheaded anarchist who chafed against British niceties and couldn’t care less about dinner parties. My aesthetic sense was too undercooked to appreciate Woolf until my late-twenties. Perhaps the fact that a novel that we feel no connection to at one age can move us to tears many years later is proof of... neuroplasticity? 

The Waves is still my favorite book of all time. Not sure if there’s any book that comes even close. George Eliot's Middlemarch might be my fave 19th-century novel…

[detournementsmineurs]

“The Hours” de Stephen Daldry (2002) - adapté du roman éponyme de Michael Cunningham (1999) racontant l'histoire de trois femmes à des époques et lieux différents autour du roman “Mrs Dalloway” de Virginia Woolf (circa 1923-25) - avec Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Ed Harris, Stephen Dillane, Miranda Richardson, John C. Reilly, Allison Janney, Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Jeff Daniels, Eileen Atkins et le jeune Jack Rovello, avril 2025.

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