Virginia Woolf reads Joyce: the testinomy of her letters in translation into Brazilian Portuguese

Abstract

Virginia Woolf's complicated reaction to James Joyce's Ulysses, despite generating interest among specialists of each author and scholars of modernism more broadly, is not yet fully available to readers of Brazilian Portuguese, who currently lack access to what Woolf writes about her reading of the novel to her friends. Here is the first translation of excerpts from all the extant letters by Woolf which deal with her reactions to Ulysses, using as a copytext the edition of her complete letters by Nicolson and Trautmann and the facsimile of the typescript letter to Harriet Weaver.