NIGEL NICOLSON

You cannot find peace by avoiding life Virginia WoolfAn intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all - All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon TIME OUTA gem SUNDAY TIMESAs a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right THE TIMESVirginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, and her writings were works of astonishing originality. Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West, who was Virginia Woolfs most intimate friend, and for a short time her lover. He spent many days in her company and he has threaded his recollections of her throughout this unique narrative of her life.

La vida y la obra de Virginia Woolf han despertado siempre la atención de miles de lectores; con esta biografía, Nigel Nicolson, hijo de una de las amigas íntima de Virginia Woolf, cuenta sus recuerdos personales a traves de la narrativa de la autora.

The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments GUARDIANAn intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents open relationship NEW YORK TIMESOne of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life TLSThe marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty without enquiry or reproach, knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.

Nigel Nicolson est le fils de Vita Sackville-West et de Harold Nicolson. Elle était la célèbre romancière et lui l’homme politique de renom. Ils eurent un mariage heureux et laffection qu’ils se port

La historia de uno de los matrimonios más peculiares e inteligentes de la alta cultura inglesa del siglo XX. El matrimonio formado por Vita Sackville-West y Harold Nicolson fue uno de los más excéntricos y menos convencionales de la sociedad inglesa de la primera mitad del siglo XX. Ella era aristocrata, escritora, especialista en jardineria, de reconocidas tendencias homosexuales y sirvio como modelo a Virginia Woolf para el personaje protagonista de Orlando; el, tambien homosexual, era un notable escritor, politico y diplomatico. Juntos vivieron una historia de asexuada pasion en el seno del mitico grupo de Bloomsbury, entregados a la literatura, la amistad, las aventuras extramatrimoniales y a la restauracion de castillo de Sissinghurst en Kent, cuyos jardines diseñaron y cuidaron a lo largo de toda su vida. En este libro, el hijo de la pareja, Nigel Nicolson, traza un retrato honesto, valiente y fascinante de la peculiar historia de sus padres y, al mismo tiempo, rescata un diario que su madre dejo inedito a su muerte en 1962 y en el que da cuenta de su historia de amor con la escritora Violet Trefusis.