Between the acts by Virginia Woolf, a conversation with Nadia Fusini and Paolo Di Paolo, readings by Camilla Semino Favro

 

Virginia Woolf’s last novel, the manuscript that the author left on her desk together with the two farewell letters addressed to her sister and her husband on the morning she left the house to go and drown herself in the nearby river Ouse. The two acts of which the novel speaks are those of an amateur play performed in a village in the heart of the English countryside. The interval is the moment in which the author set the dynamics that exist between the “real” people, the characters with their own existence, in the moment that they cease to be spectators of the play being staged.

 

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) Born in London in 1882, Virginia Stephen had a cultured and upper-class upbringing. She became part of the so-called “Bloomsbury Set”, a group of intellectuals that took their name from the London district of the same name, where she met Leonard Woolf, the man who was to become her husband. One of the greatest exponents of the technique of stream of consciousness - which consists of presenting in written form the thoughts of an individual in a manner similar to how they would come to mind -, her works included To the lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, and Orlando.

 

Tuesday 11 May 2021 at 6 p.m.
Between the acts by Virginia Woolf
A conversation with Nadia Fusini and Paolo Di Paolo
Readings by Camilla Semino Favro