Flush: A Biography - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701209461 ISBN 13 : 9780701209469

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 1991

Synopsis

First published in 1933, this is the biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. The author recreates the world from a dog's point of view, with all its associated smells, pain and pleasure. This is a reissue with its original illustrations, including four drawings by Vanessa Bell.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Virginia Woolf′s biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called "a little escapade", begun to "ease my brain" in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that most demanding fiction were soon supplanted by canine psychology and the art of anthropomorphism.

For all its fun and frivolity, Flush is none the less a work seriously inclined to mock and question the genre of biography, as did Woolf′s earlier, more ambitious, and more widely read jeu d′esprit, Orlando (1928), and was written in part as a joke at the expense of the biographer Lytton Strachey. Like Orlando it too bespeaks its author′s feminism.

In this new edition, which uses as copy–text the second issue of the first English edition and reproduces the original illustrations, Elizabeth Steele maps the events that inspired the book. She provides a wealth of information about its writing and reception – concerning fact and fiction, and Woolf′s views on the art of biography – and details its publication history.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction. Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned or real, as a part of their status as female writers. Most insightful and experimental are Woolf’s emotional and philosophical views verbalized in Flush’s thoughts. As he spends more time with Barrett Browning, Flush becomes emotionally and spiritually connected to the poetess and both begin to understand each other despite their language barriers. For Flush smell is poetry, but for Barrett Browning, poetry is impossible without words. In Flush Woolf examines the barriers that exist between woman and animal created by language yet overcome through symbolic actions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701209461
• ISBN 13: 9780701209469
• Reliure: Broché
• Illustrateur: Bell Vanessa
• Nombre de pages: 169
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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