Издания и произведения

«Але все не так просто, все складно. Якщо він кусав містера Браунінґа, він кусав і її. Ненависть – це не ненависть; ненависть – це також любов». Це захоплива біографія спанієля поетеси Елізабет Баррет-Браунінґ, у якій постає питання, що означає бути собакою – і бути людиною. Що б не писала Вірджинія Вулф, вона завжди створює класичне, легке, англійське есе, повне іронії та найточніших спостережень над людиною та світом.

Virginia Woolf's delightful biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, which asks what it means to be human - and to be dog.

Throughout her career, Woolf invokes the animal world both directly and metaphorically. She started to write a biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel after finishing The Waves, tracing the life of the spaniel from his country origins, his puppyhood spent with the writer Mary Mitford, through his sheltered existence with Elizabeth Barrett in her sick room, and later travels in Florence. But Flush is much more than a playful writer's holiday. As well as offering an exploration of a life of the senses free from the tyranny of words, Flush can be read as an allegorical testimony to the inscrutable, discarded, unrepresentable lives of…

First published in 1933, "Flush" is the lively story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel. Although Flush has adventures of his own, he is also the means of providing us with glimpses of the life of his owner and her days at Wimpole Street as an invalid, her courtship by Robert Browning, their elopement and life together in Italy.

Virginia Woolf erzählt vom Spaniel des Dichterpaares Elizabeth Barrett und Robert Browning, und nie ist die uralte Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Hund, die Gemeinsamkeit und Getrenntheit der Kreatur, sensibler geschildert worden als in dieser graziös unterhaltsamen, das Gegenständliche, das Sinnhafte, das Bewusste und das Unbewusste zart und fest greifenden Prosa.

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning's life. Introduction by Trekkie Ritchie.

This story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel, Flush, enchants right from the opening pages. Although Flush has adventures of his own with bullying dogs, horrid maids, and robbers, he also provides the reader with a glimpse into Browning’s life.