Virginia Woolf

About the Book

Almost a romantic escape. 1928. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West set off for France to attest to their feelings. To find each other, even with the ever-present phantom of Orlando, which celebrates Vita beyond any love. Virginia has lost her heart to Vita - the elusive, ephemeral Sapphic nymph - and her statuesque body. Vita and her other loves. Swashbuckling Vita. Vita, romancing and being romanced. Vita, bowed in adoration of other women’s bodies. For Virginia, feelings are a sort of surrogate ambiguity, because reality -meant to be the setting for a love song - is to her the fertile mother of thousands of worries, clashing affections, and artificial sensibilities. Nothing is as real as her imagined feelings. Virginia feels alone with her own never-ending perplexities. Ambiguity becomes central in her unconsciousness, surmising a possible, likely reality. The love proposition that fails to determine reality as such. A love that even when it is close seems to be far, with thousands of memories emerging and turning into visions that confuse past and present. They live parallel lives in the ambiguity of feeling, lives that appear as imagined realities and real images.

About the Author

Giuseppe Cafiero wrote for Radio Capodistria (Slovenia): a cycle on British and American poets; a cycle on major contemporary writers; a cycle of 34 plays – “Teatro in casa” – adapted for radioincluding Shakespeare, Brecht and O’Neill. For Italian-Swiss Radio: “James Joyce in una notte di Valpurga”; “Il ritorno”, play on two-part; a free adaptation for radio of Flaubert’s “Bouvard et Pécuchet”; a free adaptation for radio of Raspe’s “Baron von Münchhausen”; a free adaptation for radio of Daudet’s “Tartarin de Tarascon”; a free adaptation for radio of Ernst Toller’s “Oplà, noi viviamo!”. For Radio Italiana, written and directed by the author: “Alice e il Rev. Lewis Carroll”. Published: “ Vincent”, Holland,; “James Joyce, Roma e altre storie”, Italy; “Vincent Van Gogh”, Italy; “L’Ambiguità della Memoria”, Italy; “Gli incauti negozi sulla vita e l’opera di Gustave Flaubert, scrittore” Italy; “Edgar Allan Poe, or The Ambiguity of Death”, Australia, “James Joyce 1906-1907, or The Ambiguity of Epishanies”, Australia; “Gustave Flaubert, or The Ambiguity of Imagination”, UK; “Mario de Sa-Carneiro, or The Ambiguity of Suicide”, UK; “Mario de Sa-Carneiro, o La Ambiguedad de un suicidio”, Spain. Staged: “Creando un País para Alicia” in Buenos Aires; “Anima Joyce” in Buenos Aires; “Il Ritorno” in Florence; “El Aviso” in Buenos Aires.