Street Haunting: A London Adventure;Including the Essay 'Evening Over Sussex: Reflections in a Motor Car'

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The essay is also notable for its exploration of the relationship between the inner world of the individual and the outer world of the city. Woolf suggests that the physical environment can have a profound impact on the inner lives of individuals, and that the city can serve as a source of inspiration and creative energy for writers and artists. From prime ministers to the homeless, the narrator examines the city’s inhabitants and the spaces they occupy. ‘What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality’, the narrator asks, to feel ‘that one is not tethered to a single mind, but can put on briefly for a few minutes the bodies and minds of others’. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. After her father's death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’. This informal collective of artists and writers exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture.

Tracy Seeley, Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” and the Art of the Digressive Passage, Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Spring 2013), pp. 149-160

Street Haunting Essay Summary By Virginia Woolf-The essay begins with Woolf stating her intention to leave her house and venture out into the city on a winter’s evening. She describes the motivations behind her decision, highlighting the allure of anonymity and the opportunity to observe the lives of others. Woolf argues that going outside and immersing oneself in the city’s atmosphere can stimulate the imagination and provide valuable insights into the human condition. Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.

e decide espairecer percorrendo vários locais icónicos da capital inglesa como Oxford Street, a Strand e as margens do Tamisa. Flâneur 2010., edited by Ian Buchanan. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://www-proquest-com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu/encyclopedias-reference-works/flâneur/docview/2137953454/se-2?accountid=14553. Woolf decides that she needs to take an excursion through the streets of London with the pretext of needing a pencil. It’s really just an excuse to escape her room and solitude. The ideal time for a walk in London is in the winter evening. There’s no heat to hide from in the shade, and one can take their time ambling along. By joining the vast multitude of pedestrians, one becomes anonymous. Street Haunting Essay Summary By Virginia Woolf-One of Woolf’s most celebrated works, “Mrs. Dalloway,” was published in 1925. The novel takes place over the course of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in post-World War I London.

A collection of short stories and essays; one of which was the best I HAVE EVER READ : Street haunting. Absolutely stunning. Throughout my reading I didn't stop wondering how someone can reach such literary perfection. I feel like I am slowly immersing myself into Woolf's world and her stream of consciousness style. I also read some scraps of the French translated version that I had within reach -available under the title " Au hasard des rues - Une aventure londonienne "- and I loved the translation. Yes, he moved her out of London to Richmond when she was falling into yet another nervous breakdown – and yes, she enjoyed satirising the deathly dullness of the suburbs – one recalls the line from The Hours: "Between Richmond and death, I choose death." More seriously, Virginia depended on London for her creative spark, writing in 1923: "I sit down baffled and depressed to face a life spent, mute and mitigated in the suburbs..." It is clear that tranquil Richmond did not stimulate or inspire her. Rebecca Solnit, The Solitary Stroller and The City, Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Penguin: 2001)