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• Authors: Virginia Woolf

Title variants

EN

Death of the Moth

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The image of moths gathering around a source of light recurs in Woolf’s private writings and becomes an import motif also in her novels and essays. It is most probably the description of moths in her sister’s letter that become an initial inspiration for writing of The Waves, Woolf’s most radical experiment in novelistic form, where she strives to create a subject-less perspective. On the other hand The Death of The Moth, a 1927 essay, whose first translation into Polish comes together with the present commentary from the translator, is a crystal-clear description of the world as seen by the writer/narrator at her desk, surrounded by exuberant life but witnessing death. 

Keywords

PL

experimental prose; The Waves; To the Lighthouse; Jacob’s Room.

EN

experimental prose; The Waves; To the Lighthouse; Jacob’s Room.; experimental prose; The Waves; To the Lighthouse; Jacob’s Room.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 21
• Pages: 179-185

Dates

published

2013-01-01

Contributors

author

Virginia Woolf

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References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/pspsl:2013.21.10