The Waves (Paperback)

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849027781 ISBN 13 : 9781849027786

Editeur : Benediction Classics, 2010

Book by Woolf Virginia

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as `the life of anybody'. The Waves (1931) traces the lives and interactions of seven friends in an exploratory and sensuous narrative. The Waves was conceived, brooded on, and written during a highly political phase in Woolf's career, when she was speaking on issues of gender and of class. This was also the period when her love affair with Vita Sackville-West was at its most intense. The work is often described as if it were the product of a secluded, disembodied sensibility. Yet its writing is supremely engaged and engaging, providing an experience which the reader is unlikely to forget. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In 2006 Katie Mitchell and her collaborators devised an original work for the National Theatre which transposed the vision of Virginia Woolf s experimental novel The Waves into an entirely new form. The intertwining narrative of six friends from childhood to maturity and beyond was rendered into a series of beautiful and poignant images onto a screen by live actors and musicians incorporating techniques taken from the theatre, radio and video production. This deconstruction of the novel and theatrical method made process and production visible simultaneously and conveyed a uniquely moving and exhilarating experience to the audience. The production is being revived by the original team in Summer/Autumn of 2008 at the National Theatre and will then go on tour. The book combines the text used from Woolf s novel with the corresponding images in order to create a record of the production, and a work of art in its own right.