Virginia Woolf: Between writing and disease

Theauthors offer an analysis of mental illness in the work of a keytwentieth century author: Virginia Woolf. A critical review of herliterary legacy allows us to get closer to what might be one of themost intense literary portrayals of illness and its metaphors and, atthe same time, to the representations, euphemisms, silences, andmonsters depicted in the chapters of her life and in the unique voiceof an essential author.