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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19961207
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VIRGINIA WOOLF. By Hermione Lee. Chatto and Windus; 892 pages; [Pounds] 20

THERE seems at the moment to be an appetite for monumental literary biographies, something that sets you wondering: do writers live their lives twice over? Is biography a necessary route to their books, especially with the great 19th- and early 20th-century figures (to speak only of them) whose work was so self-exploratory? Now at the end of the 20th century, are they fading, their worlds and ideas no longer within easy grasp? And, more simply, does biography also satisfy a desire for "character" and ...

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