La vida de Violet (Narrativa)
Language: Spanish
Published by LUMEN, 2026
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144 pages. Spanish language. 5.98x0.55x9.02 inches. In Stock.
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- Title
- La vida de Violet (Narrativa)
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia (Author)/ Mata Buil, Ana (Translator)
- Publisher
- LUMEN
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Brand New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- Spanish
- ISBN 10
- 8426434193
- ISBN 13
- 9788426434197
- Item weight
- 0.37 kilograms
Irreverente, radicalmente libre y llena de humor: la primera obra de ficción de Woolf es una apuesta por el poder subversivo de la amistad y la risa femenina.
«Una Woolf joven e ingeniosa [...] capaz de jugar con lo cómico y lo fantástico sin perder profundidad. La habitación anterior a la habitación: el lugar mental donde la escritura, aún secreta, comienza a tomar forma». —Vogue
Violet es una giganta risueña que ha nacido en la época equivocada. Pese a ello, esta mujer de poderes tan asombrosos como su estatura desprecia jovialmente las convenciones aristocráticas, construye una casa propia para sus amigas y viaja a Japón decidida a imaginar un nuevo orden político. Entre el cuento de hadas, la fantasía y la sátira social, La vida de Violet dinamita la trama matrimonial victoriana y cuestiona la falsa elección entre virtud y ambición, para celebrar la risa y la amistad entre mujeres como auténticas fuerzas transformadoras.
Parte biografía ficticia de su gran amiga Violet Dickinson, parte experimento literario, esta es la primera obra de ficción de Virginia Woolf, escrita a los veintiséis años, y un texto fundamental para comprender los orígenes de su pensamiento y de su universo creativo. Tras el hallazgo fortuito, en 2022, del manuscrito anotado y corregido por la propia autora, se publica esta obra, inédita en castellano, acompañada de un aparato crítico a cargo de Urmila Seshagiri, responsable de este feliz redescubrimiento.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first time
A beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a magical “cottage of one’s own,” battles a silver-scaled sea monster, and defies governesses and gravity alike
In 1907, eight years before she published her first novel, a twenty-five-year-old Virginia Woolf drafted three interconnected comic stories chronicling the adventures of a giantess named Violet—a teasing tribute to Woolf’s friend Mary Violet Dickinson. But it was only in 2022 that Woolf scholar Urmila Seshagiri discovered a final, revised typescript of the stories. The typescript revealed that Woolf had finished this mock-biography, making it her first fully realized literary experiment and a work that anticipates her later masterpieces. Published here for the first time in its final form, The Life of Violet blends fantasy, fairy tale, and satire as it transports readers into a magical world where the heroine triumphs over sea-monsters as well as stifling social traditions.
In these irresistible and riotously plotted stories, Violet, who has powers “as marvelous as her height,” gleefully flouts aristocratic proprieties, finds joy in building “a cottage of one’s own,” and travels to Japan to help create a radical new social order. Amid flights of fancy such as a snowfall of sugared almonds and bathtubs made of painted ostrich eggs, The Life of Violet upends the marriage plot, rejects the Victorian belief that women must choose between virtue and ambition, and celebrates women’s friendships and laughter.
A major literary discovery that heralds Woolf’s ambitions to revolutionize fiction and sheds new light on her great themes, The Life of Violet is first and foremost a delight to read.
This volume features a preface, afterword, notes, and photographs that provide rich historical, literary, and biographical context.
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