Name: Monday Or Tuesday
Price: 21.13 EUR
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9789355840356

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

True Sign Publishing House

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 14.0 x 0.3 cm

Weight

0.07 kg.

ISBN13

9789355840356

Synopsis "Monday Or Tuesday"

A Short Analysis of Virginia Woolf's 'Monday or Tuesday' Everyday Words Taken from Famous If you found reading 'Monday or Tuesday' a disorienting experience, don't worry you're meant to. One of the things Woolf is exploring through this short story is disorientation, distraction, the difficult and perhaps foolish quest for truthful and honest representation of the world through one's writing. Even the title hints at this confusion and uncertainty: to the narrator, and perhaps to Woolf herself, today could be either Monday or Tuesday. Perhaps it doesn't matter. The everyday occurrences her short story describes ('everyday' being a key word for Woolf; again, the title 'Monday or Tuesday' comes into play here) are at once distractions from her greater goal of trying to write 'the truth' and the very embodiment of that truth.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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