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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

bthadifields's review against another edition

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5.0

“Esta poetisa que jamás escribió una palabra y se halla enterrada en esta encrucijada vive todavía. Vive en nosotras y en mí, y en muchas otras mujeres que no están aquí esta noche porque están lavando platos y poniendo a los niños en la cama.”

Las primeras experiencias nos asustan a todos, no sabemos cómo va a resultar. Nos encontramos igual de temerosos, nos inunda una sensación en el estómago de cosquilleo: la adrenalina, que no siempre significa algo bueno pues también suele detonar ansiedad y peligro. Pues bien, este libro ha estado plagado de nuevas experiencias para mí. Es la primera vez que leo un ensayo, es la primera vez que leo a Virginia Woolf y es la primera vez que leo algo tan dedicado a algo tan trascendente como es el impacto de las mujeres en la sociedad, más específico en la literatura. Aunque toma también en consideración otras formas de arte. A medida que fui pasando las páginas desenvolvió las polémicas más actuales (que como he comprobado no han cambiado en siglos) e ignoradas de una sociedad perfectamente capaz de solucionar estos problemas tan solo incapaz de asumirlo. Un ensayo con el que podrás reflexionar y cuando lo termines de leer solo quedará de ti la furia femenina o “femenine rage” que me quedó a mi al cerrar el libro. Una experiencia inigualable para una primera vez.

july_reads's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

miamaybereading's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

It took me some time to get used to her writing style but then I really enjoyed her stream of consciousness. I sometimes felt that her writing had a pretentious tone and that she blamed women… However there also were a lot of beautiful and important quotes.

pilarluna's review against another edition

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reflective fast-paced

4.0

ericbrasiln's review against another edition

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inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

hannah_go03's review

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

nvrrrdie's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

I have no doubt that Virginia Woolf is an intelligent and contemplative writer. I think this book is of historical interest about theory related to opportunity, poverty, and success and the changing position of Englishwomen in society, and that this text was a very early contribution to a field that has since grown extremely more wide and deep. However I dreaded reading this and found the style very hard to parse. Overall it did not leave much of an impression on me and I will likely find more benefit from later generations of writing.

vivian_m_anderson's review against another edition

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4.5

so so good! just as relevant today as it was when woolf wrote it—was fun to read for my gender studies independent study!

rebeccabattin's review against another edition

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3.0

Had some good points but overall the book is written really pretentiously and Woolf spends its last pages blaming women for not trying hard enough to apply themselves to writing. Not great.

ft_nelly's review against another edition

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challenging reflective slow-paced

4.0