Virginia Woolf
He was born in London in 1882 into a wealthy family. Virginia showed an
early interest in literature, also the result of the fact that her father was a
famous literary critic and philosopher. At the age of 13, he lost his
mother. Following this loss, he attended the prestigious King's College
London, where he devoted himself to the study of history and classical
literature. Even the joy for admission to university studies was
undermined by two traumatic events: the death of his half-sister and his
father a little later, he was the victim for his whole life of strong mood
swings, depressive crises and deep nervous breakdowns due to of the
griefs that have occurred. Following these events he decided to move
with his sister to Bloomsbury, where the two gave birth to the
Bloomsbury Set: it was a group of intellectuals who, in periodic literary
meetings, discussed various topical topics including politics, art and
history. It was thanks to this group that she met the one who became her
husband in 1912, Leonard Woolf. In the following years he wrote his most
famous works: "Mrs. Dalloway", "Trip to the lighthouse", "Orlando". The
numerous negative events that had characterized her life led to her
suicide in 1941. Woolf let herself be drowned in the River Ouse, filling her
pockets with stones and leaving her husband a farewell letter. In his texts
the narration of the events of everyday life in the strict sense loses
importance. The focus becomes the subjectivity of the character, his
interiority and his psychology. In this sense, everyday events are no
longer reported in relation to the passage of time or their chronological
succession, but analyzed more deeply by the character's psyche. The
traditional form of the plot is then distorted and direct speeches leave
their space to an interior monologue of the character. Thoughts,
emotions, memories acquire a predominant role in the text and are
expressed with a cultured, refined and refined language with the aim of
rendering the flow of consciousness that characterizes every human
being.
