Book, Professions for women and other essays[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. This anthology presents a lesser-known face of Virginia Woolf, that of a journalist. She in fact contributed continuously to newspapers and magazines, with the same care and care with which she wrote her novels. These are essays that achieve an extraordinary balance, especially between the colloquial and the erudite, with special skill in this transition that goes from essay to chronicle, from memorialistic to biographical records. They are sparse texts, “united by the voice that narrates, comments, censors, praises and entertains”, and thus become very “close, funny, exciting, familiar” texts, as translator and organizer Wagner Schadeck points out. Still in Schadeck's indication, “they are essay-letters, essay-biographies, essay-reviews, essay-stories, essay-chronicles... not only by a talented writer, but by an excellent reader, who reads like an obstinate assembler of puzzles”, since, “different from the image of a dark writer, these texts reveal the grace, intelligence, sarcasm, the reflection of an author concerned with being close to her readers, in a beautiful fraternity promoted by literature” .