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Moments of Being

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Virginia Woolf - paperback

Moments of Being is “the single most moving and beautiful thing that Virginia Woolf ever wrote about her own life” (The New York Times) and her only autobiographical writing, published years after her death.
In “Reminiscences,” the first of five pieces included in Moments of Being, Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, “the greatest disaster that could happen,” and its effect on her father, a demanding Victorian patriarch who played a crucial role in her development as an individual and a writer. Three of the essays she wrote for the purpose of reading at the Memoir Club, a postwar regrouping of Bloomsbury, and “A Sketch of the Past” the last and longest of the five essays, gives an account of Woolf's early years in her family's household at 22 Hyde Park Gate.

Moments of Being es “lo más conmovedor y hermoso que Virginia Woolf haya escrito sobre su propia vida” (The New York Times) y su único escrito autobiográfico, publicado años después de su muerte.

En “Reminiscencias”, la primera de cinco piezas incluidas en Moments of Being, Woolf se centra en la muerte de su madre, “el mayor desastre que podría ocurrir”, y el efecto que tuvo en su padre, un exigente patriarca victoriano que jugó un papel crucial en su desarrollo como persona y escritora. Tres de los ensayos que escribió con el propósito de leer en el Memoir Club, una reagrupación de Bloomsbury de posguerra, y "A Sketch of the Past", el último y más largo de los cinco ensayos, dan cuenta de los primeros años de Woolf en la casa de su familia, en el número 22 de la puerta de Hyde Park.

 

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