Издания и произведения

Выдающаяся английская писательница Вирджиния Вулф давно уже стала признанным классиком европейской литературы. Ее знаменитые романы "Миссис Дэллоуэй", "На маяк", "Орландо" неизменно находят своего читателя. Предлагаемый в настоящем издании роман "Между актов", законченный Вулф незадолго до ее самоубийства, носит в высшей степени экспериментальный характер даже для самой писательницы. В нем прошлое, настоящее и будущее Англии переданы в одном дне из жизни семьи Хейнзов. Между актов пьесы, посвященной истории Англии и представляемой на сцене любительского театра, разыгрывается драма непонимания и отчуждения в реальной жизни главных героев…

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf's last novel, and in her own opinion it was `more quintessential' than any of her others. Set in the summer of 1939 on the day of the annual village pageant at Pointz Hall, the book weaves together the musings of several disparate characters and their reactions to the imminence of a war which is to change the pattern of history. Before the book was published in the spring of 1941, Virginia Woolf had taken her own life.

Предлагаемый в настоящем издании роман "Между актов", законченный Вулф незадолго до ее самоубийства, носит в высшей степени экспериментальный характер даже для самой писательницы. В нем прошлое, настоящее и будущее Англии переданы в одном дне из жизни семьи Хейнзов. Между актов пьесы, посвященной истории Англии и представляемой на сцене любительского театра, разыгрывается драма непонимания и отчуждения в реальной жизни главных героев романа. Между актов рушатся идеалы и надежды людей, стоящих на пороге Второй мировой войны, рушится целый мир. Отдельным изданием перевод на русский язык публикуется впервые.

Outwardly a novel about life in a country house in whose grounds there is to be a pageant, Between the Acts is also a striking evocation of English experience in the months leading up to the Second World War. Through dialogue, humour and the passionate musings of the characters, Virginia Woolf explores how a community is formed (and scattered) over time. The tableau, a series of scenes from English history, and the private dramas that go on between the acts are closely interlinked. Through the figure of Miss La Trobe, author of the pageant, Virginia Woolf guestions imperialist assumptions and, at the same time, re-creates the elusive…

‘Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realization of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition’ New York Times Virginia Woolf’s last novel was published shortly after her death in March 1941. Showing a richness of invention, and the author’s clear enjoyment in the writing of it, Between the Acts is also one of her most lyrical works. This definitive edition contains the original text that she was still working on when she died. The story takes place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for 120 years, and revolves…

Virginia Woolf's extraordinary last novel, Between the Acts, was published in July 1941. In the weeks before she died in March that year, Woolf wrote that she planned to continue revising the book and that it was not ready for publication. Her husband prepared the work for publication after her death, and his revisions have become part of the text now widely read by students and scholars. Unlike most previous editions, the Cambridge edition returns to the final version of the novel as Woolf left it, examining the stages of composition and publication. Using the final typescript as a guide, this edition fully collates all variants and thus…

A village pageant is to take place at Pointz Hall, the country home of the Oliver family for time beyond memory. Written and directed by the energetic Miss La Trobe, the pageant will take in the history of England from the Middle Ages. The past blends with the present and art blends with life in a narrative full of invention, affection and lyricism. Between the Acts was Virginia Woolf's final novel, and this edition contains the original text that she was working on when she died.