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The Cinema

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Virginia Woolf wrote the draft for this essay in mid-April, shortly before beginning the Initial Holograph Draft of 'Time Passes', which was written between 30th April and 25th May 1926.

In conjunction with Virginia Woolf's essay 'Impassioned Prose', which was drafted between 10th and 13th May 1926, this essay informs and bookends the Initial Holograph Draft.

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First published January 2, 2012

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Virginia Woolf

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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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May 30, 2018
La prosa di Virginia Woolf è sempre un balsamo per l’animo, anche nel caso di questi brevissimi saggi che - sorprendentemente, visto il titolo - discorrono del linguaggio in quanto funzione comunicativo, e analizzano brevemente e con sagacia i linguaggi del cinema e verbale. Come si precisa nel saggio finale, che fa un po’ il punto della situazione dei due saggi, Virginia Woolf non prende posizioni facili, accomodanti, è polemica, perché la sua intelligenza acuta le permetteva di fare analisi molto più approfondite e lucide di quanto la critica miope fa (da sempre) su ciò che le è contemporaneo. Vale per il cinema e vale per quelle parole (vale a dire certe correnti letterarie) che appaiono scomodi, “volgari”. Per Virginia c’è solo, forte, l’istanza comunicativa del linguaggio artistico. Tutto il resto è cecità.
30 reviews
December 4, 2018
Читала не всю книгу, а только вынесенное в название эссе - оно невероятное. Будто мои мысли столетней давности
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December 31, 2020
Какое-то такое меланхоличное и густо(!) акварельное письмо.
Захотелось ещё её почитать.
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435 reviews16 followers
June 8, 2021
Le 4 stelle vengono meritate da quest'opera soprattutto, a mio avviso, per il bel saggio intitolato "The Craftmanship": illuminante, come sempre accade quando si legge la Woolf.
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June 2, 2025
Really enjoyed this one. I think it has a lot of room for interesting discussions about art forms, adapting works from one form to the other, and what gets lost in this kind of translation.
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March 13, 2026
со всей любовью к Вирджинии, меня очень расстраивает, как женщина, боровшаяся против разделения людей по половому признаку, разделяет людей по высоте лба..
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July 21, 2016
аристократичное ворчание сквозь поток сознания. про кинематограф всего пара страниц
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