This new biography accompanies a major exhibition of portraits of Woolf and her circle at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Sélection de romans, articles, essais et extraits de Journal

Les fictions emblématiques de la modernité littéraire détruisent ce qui faisait depuis Aristote le principe même de la fiction : l’enchaînement des actions selon la nécessité ou la vraisemblance. [...] En récusant cette structure de rationalité, la fiction nouvelle témoignait d’un bouleversement qui mettait à bas la hiérarchie des formes de vie.

The present volume seeks to explore the implications of Woolf’s contemporaneity in terms of her own era and of ours. By looking at how one can grasp the meaning of one’s time from within and without, it traces ways in which her fictional as well as non-fictional works reflect on or engage with those forms of untimeliness or out-of-timeness in the present which enable an author to see its shadows or perceive its obscurity.