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Wir sollten alle viel mehr Virgina Woolf lesen. Ihre Montagetechnik, dieses Ineinanderflechten von Handlung und Stream of Consciousness aller Figuren, das ist schon echt extrem stark. Sowohl stilistisch wie auch inhaltlich.
#VirginiaWoolf #Literatur #literature #bookstodon #buchstodon #lesen #lesenswert
"A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of three comic stories written eight years before her first novel appeared. "
"A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of three comic stories written eight years before her first novel appeared. "
Newly found Virginia Woolf stories:
(Found by my terrific former student Urmila Seshagiri.)
Boy, was this ever good..!
Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
"She hated her: she loved her. It was enemies one wanted, not friends – "
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“It ended in a transcendental theory which, with her horror of death, allowed her to believe, or say that she believed (for all her scepticism), that since our apparitions, the part of us which appears, are so momentary compared with the other, the unseen part of us, which spreads wide, the unseen might survive, be recovered somehow attached to this person or that, or even haunting certain places, after death. Perhaps – perhaps.”
“What she liked was simply life.
‘That’s what I do it for,’ she said, speaking aloud, to life.”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“Here he opened Shakespeare once more. That boy’s business of the intoxication of language [..] How Shakespeare loathed humanity [..] This was now revealed [..] the message hidden in the beauty of words. The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair. Dante the same. Aeschylus (translated) the same.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“Anyhow there was no bitterness in her; none of that sense of moral virtue which is so repulsive in good women. She enjoyed practically everything.”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
“Do you not discern the influence of jazz?”: W. L. Courtney on Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room” in 1922. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #WLCourtney #Jazz #Novels #Literature #ShortStories #1922 #FScottFitzgerald #TalesOfTheJazzAge #Music #TheJazzAge https://111-words.ghost.io/do-you-not-discern-the-influence-of-jazz-w-l-courtney-on-virginia-woolfs-jacobs-room-in-1922/
“Do you not discern the influence of jazz?”: W. L. Courtney on Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room” in 1922. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #WLCourtney #Jazz #Novels #Literature #ShortStories #1922 #FScottFitzgerald #TalesOfTheJazzAge #Music #TheJazzAge https://111-words.ghost.io/do-you-not-discern-the-influence-of-jazz-w-l-courtney-on-virginia-woolfs-jacobs-room-in-1922/
"...with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too. The world has raised its whip; where will it descend”
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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
I might need to rethink my eating habits, though, after this weekend. Two large buffet offerings, and finger food at the open air theatre - the only event where I did not go back and refill my plate three times.
And, after the theatre event, I need to re-read Virginia Woolf's "Orlando".
I might need to rethink my eating habits, though, after this weekend. Two large buffet offerings, and finger food at the open air theatre - the only event where I did not go back and refill my plate three times.
And, after the theatre event, I need to re-read Virginia Woolf's "Orlando".
Virginia Woolf and the Wren Library – Trinity College Library, Cambridge:
"Surgió, como un ángel guardián, cortándome el paso con un revoloteo de ropajes negros en lugar de alas blancas, un caballero disgustado, plateado, amable, que en voz queda sintió comunicarme, haciéndome señal de retroceder, que no se admite a las señoras en la biblioteca más que acompañadas de un «fellow» o provistas de una carta de presentación..."
https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/virginia-woolf-and-the-wren-library/
#Bibliotecas #Mujeres #VirginiaWoolf
Food and plants from books
Gina from Babs Beloved Books shared recently (on Instagram) a book haul and specifically the book The Anne of Green Gables Treasure. I remembered making one of the recipes of this book. Spoiler alert: the shortbread is delicious. Around the same time, I also made the raspberry cordial, but it’s not in this book, I must have found the recipe elsewhere online.
I’d never had shortbread or raspberry cordial before and at the time it was not something you could buy at the store in Portugal. This also made me think that sometimes I make recipes because I want to know how they taste.
That was the case of orange marmalade. The first time I read about it there was no mention of orange, but a character in A pocket full of rye by Agatha Christie takes …
Food and plants from books
Gina from Babs Beloved Books shared recently (on Instagram) a book haul and specifically the book The Anne of Green Gables Treasure. I remembered making one of the recipes of this book. Spoiler alert: the shortbread is delicious. Around the same time, I also made the raspberry cordial, but it’s not in this book, I must have found the recipe elsewhere online.
I’d never had shortbread or raspberry cordial before and at the time it was not something you could buy at the store in Portugal. This also made me think that sometimes I make recipes because I want to know how they taste.
That was the case of orange marmalade. The first time I read about it there was no mention of orange, but a character in A pocket full of rye by Agatha Christie takes a spoon of marmalade from a jar and spreads it on a toast. And this was strange for me, because here we slice the marmalade, it’s not easily spreadable. And we don’t make marmalade from oranges, but from quinces. And of course, Paddington also loves orange marmalade. Are there other literary references?
So I decided to give it a go and see how it would taste. I found several recipes online, but after making it some times I changed it a little bit. I use less sugar, but I sterilise the jars before and boiled them until vacuum after filling them. I also make it at the beginning of the year when oranges are not sweet. I shared the recipe on this blog before, if you want to take a look, but in Portuguese.
Another recipe is Madeira cake. I can’t recall a literary reference, but I read many United Kingdom authors, and this is a cake that was much used in 19th century in the UK. The fact is that it got my attention: Madeira is a Portuguese island and indeed has a tradicional cake, but nothing like this one. Searching a little more, I found that the cake is called Madeira because it used to be served with a glass of Madeira wine (which is indeed from Madeira island). I also shared the recipe before here (also in Portuguese), I can’t tell where I got it (maybe BBC Good Food?). I usually take recipes, make them a few times, and if they’re good than share them, but by that time, I really can’t tell where I got them and most of the times I’ve change them anyway (recipes do not have copyright, phew!).
Then there were sweet peas. I have heard about them and their strong scent, but never saw any. Mrs. Dalloway had them in bowls “tinged violet, snow white, pale—as if it were the evening and girls in muslin frocks came out to pick sweet peas and roses after the superb summer’s day”. So when I saw seeds in a store I decided to give them a grow, some came out and they do have a lovely scent.
Now, tell me: do you also make recipes or sow plants that you read about to know how they taste, look, or for their scent? If you shared them before, put the link in the comments so I can read them, or share the recipe in the comments.
#BookLook #books #fiction #MadeiraCake #OrangeMarmalade #readings #Recipes #RecipesFromBooks #SweetPeas #VirginiaWoolf
T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf #tseliot #virginiawoolf #english #poetry #literature #modernliterature #writers
