The Literature Network - The years: as this month's hot oscar contender, the hours, shows, Virginia Woolf is still nailing life's moments better than anyone. Here, writer Michael Cunningham tells why.

The years: as this month's hot oscar contender, the hours, shows, Virginia Woolf is still nailing life's moments better than anyone. Here, writer Michael Cunningham tells why.

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Date: 20030401
Author:Cunningham, Michael

I read Virginia Woolf for the first time when I was 15 years old, under duress, and was surprised to find that she rocked my little adolescent world. I remember thinking, Wow, she was doing with language something like what Jimi Hendrix does with a guitar.

I still insist, some 35 years later, on the similarities between Woolf and Hendrix, though there are not a lot of Woolf scholars who agree with me. If Woolf and Hendrix could somehow meet, I suspect she'd be considerably more interested in him than he'd be in her. I imagine she'd find him fascinating and he'd find her, ...

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