After Alberto Savinio, Gianni Rodari and Saul Steinberg, Virginia Woolf is the fourth protagonist of the Encyclopaedia series. A woman. A woman writer who, at the beginning of the 20th century, opened up new paths to narrative writing and modernist thought. The undisputed protagonist of modernist experimentalism with novels such as To the Lighthouse and The Waves, Virginia Woolf is also a highly original essayist, who with A Room of One’s Own began a reflection on writing and life as a woman, which inevitably made her an icon, a necessary ancestor for women today. While with Three Guineas, she pointed the way for a feminist political critique of Nazi-fascist thought in the 1930s, echoing the thought of philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil.

Her nonconformist and extraordinarily modern personality, her narrative and non-fiction writing, the places, people and figures that animated the Bloomsbury circle with her are presented through an articulate and lively collection of voices, selected and edited by Nadia Fusini, with the aim of drawing a portrait, once again surprising, of one of the most fertile intelligences that the 20th century has bestowed upon us.