Flush - Virginia Woolf

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Résumé :
Universalmente se reconoce a la familia de la que descend?a nuestro biografiado como una de las de m?s rancia estirpe. Por tanto, no es extra?o que el origen de este apellido se pierda en la oscuridad de los tiempos. Hace muchos millones de a?os, el pa?s que hoy se llama Espa?a bull?a con los fermentos de la Creaci?n. Pasaron siglos; apareci? la vegetaci?n; donde hay vegetaci?n, ha decretado la Naturaleza que haya tambi?n conejos; y, dondequiera que hay conejos, quiere la Providencia que haya perros. Todo esto es irrefutable. Pero empiezan las dudas y las dificultades en cuanto nos preguntamos por qu? se llam? spaniel al perro que cazaba al conejo. Algunos historiadores afirman que cuando los soldados cartagineses desembarcaron en Espa?a, gritaron a una: Span! Span!, porque ve?an salir a los conejos, como flechas, de entre la maleza. Todo el pa?s rebosaba de conejos. Y span en cartagin?s significa ?conejo?. Por eso llamaron al pa?s Hispania, o tierra de conejos; y a los perros, a quienes se descubri? casi al mismo tiempo persiguiendo a los conejos, se les llam? spaniels o perros conejeros. Muchos se contentar?an con esta explicaci?n; pero la verdad nos obliga a a?adir que existe una escuela cient?fica sustentadora de una opini?n diferente. La palabra Hispania, seg?n los eruditos, nada tiene que ver con la voz cartaginesa span. Hispania deriva de la palabra vasca espa?a, que significa ?l?mite? o ?frontera?.

Biographie:
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement....

Sommaire:
Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight which included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement....