In "A Room of One's Own," Woolf speculates that Shakespeare had a sister, equal in talent and intelligence, whose fate is radically different. This imagined woman fails to write a single word and dies alone, immersed in her world without ever managing to express her genius.
If she had found the means and conditions to create, Woolf argues, she would have reached the same levels of achievement as her "immortal" brother. In this classic essay, Virginia Woolf uses her gift of language to challenge the unjust social environment of her time and, through this, to give a voice to all those who experience the same treatment as her heroine.
Her message is simple: women must have a steady income and a room of their own in order to create freely. The book, a landmark in the issue of women's emancipation, is based on two texts read at the Arts Society in Newnham and Girton College in October 1928.
Virginia Woolf modified and enriched these revolutionary texts for their time, addressing the subject of women and prose in a striking manner.
Manufacturer
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Publisher
- Odysseas
- Original Title
- A Room of One's Own
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 173
- Release Date
- 6/2015
- Publication Date
- 2015
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789602105887
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