Diaris

Virginia Woolf began writing her diary in 1915, just before her first novel was published, with the purpose of disciplining herself and preparing a future autobiography. He persevered with it until the day of his death: it is a quarter of a century of entries that show a microcosm in which aesthetic refinement could be the categorical imperative. While Mrs. Dalloway, Head to the Lighthouse, Les ones and Entre les actes are in progress, the newspaper offers a monumental view of life. The inner universe, made of conquests and doubts as artistic ambition is defined, is revealed mixed with the frenetic days of high society and the lows of two wars. The observing eye writes in jet. His notes organize an unprecedented solar system, made of emotional bonds. The universe: between London and Sussex, a landscape where Woolf has formed her concept of beauty. There the Bloomsbury Group thrives and the first editions of Eliot and Mansfield are printed, before the evidence of a devastation that will preserve nothing, the terror of a possible Nazi victory, sets in.