Da "Gli Anni" di Virginia Woolf

Digital Collage di Federica Nightingale ©

It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, sent clouds of blue and of purple flying over the land. In the country farmers, looking at the fields, were apprehensive; in London umbrellas were opened and then shut by people looking up at the sky. But in April such weather was to be expected. Thousands ...of shop assistants made that remark, as they handed neat parcels to ladies in flounced dresses standing on the other side of the counter at Whiteley's and the Army and Navy Stores.
The years - First pages, Virginia Woolf



Era una primavera incerta. Il tempo, in perpetuo mutamento, disponeva nubi blu e porpora a volare sulla terra. Nelle campagne, i contadini guardando i campi apparivano apprensivi; a Londra venivano aperti e poi richiusi gli ombrelli nel guardare al cielo. Ma in Aprile un tempo simile c'era da aspettarselo. Centinaia di commessi nei negozi affermavano ciò rimarcandolo, mentre portavano pacchi ben fatti a signore in abiti a balze, in piedi sull'altro lato del bancone di Whiteley's e Army and Navy Stores. Gli anni - V. Woolf (Trad. Federica Galetto)