Hello! I am new to this forum and I thought the best way to start would be by talking about something great, as I think Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is.
I am currently reading it for university and never has a book awakened such passionate and strong feelings in me.
I would like other people's opinion on the matter, so please tell me what you think
I have not read it but I hear it is a feminist book.
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
I've only read the often-excerpted chapter "Shakespeare's Sister," which I didn't think was very interesting. The presentation of it seemed bland, and the basic premise not well thought out. I've always thought that some of the greatest writers in the English language were women whose lives were notoriously unadventurous, e.g. Dickinson and Austen; obviously having an equal shot in any aspect of life is a benefit in terms of helping people live happier lives, but it doesn't seem to affect literary ability, so long as (and I realize these requirements have often not been met for women in history!) one knows how to read, write, and has access to literature. So I think Woolf's idea that being kept at home constantly is a detriment to the development of talent is not accurate. I would say that it is more important that one have wealth and therefore leisure time.
However, I did love Woolf's novels To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway. She just didn't seem at her best in Shakespeare's Sister.
Not sure about A Room of One's Own, but does anyone think there are better examples of stream of consciousness mode than To The Lighthouse, which is often vague with too many parenthesis and flitting arbitrarily from a good sentence to bad and back to good?
Perhaps it being the one or one of the pioneering stream of consciousness works gives it a special place in the history of English literature?
But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel
You were what the wind was making with illuminated leaves.
ah, I can say nothing! You were made of everything.
_Pablo Neruda
Marbles, yes there are problems with To the Lighthouse, it is clearly an imperfect work, but it's definitely one of the purest examples of a stream-of-consciousness style. I don't recall that many bad sentences, but it's been a while since I read it and I read it a little too quickly. In any case I look forward to revisiting it.
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can you give me URL for download few of the books of v w?
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The author's listing on LitNet includes three VW novels: Voyage Out, Night and Day, and Jacob's Room, her first three novels, but I'm not familiar with any of them. I did read Mrs. Dalloway, which is said to be a good example of stream-of-consciousness writing, but I have to say I had to force myself to keep reading it. I guess I'm just not that much of a fan of that style of writing.
A just conception of life is too large a thing to grasp during the short interval of passing through it.
Thomas Hardy
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Why do many of the creators end up a tragic end? Virginia has admitted that it was happy with her husband, but her depression chronic ruled on the remaining of her life
What does this mean?
Nothing. Depression has been linked to creativity, but that's it.Originally Posted by omferas
I don't remember this book well, but I wouldn't call it 'feminist' per-say.
'So - this is where we stand. Win all, lose all,
we have come to this: the crisis of our lives'
Really? Why not?
Was it really concerned with women as a political unit, or as an individual writer who happens to be a woman? I might be using a very selected definition of the word 'feminist'.
'So - this is where we stand. Win all, lose all,
we have come to this: the crisis of our lives'
Yeah, I think your definition is far too selective. In the individual is found the whole of society, and vice versa, no?
Virginia Woolf's ''A Room of One's Own'' is really a good work and to some extent yes, I would call it a feminist text.
As for Mrs. Dalloway, it is really a hard book to read but a perfect example of stream of consciousness.
There is a good book
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Nothing. Depression has been linked to creativity, but that's it.
I don't remember this book well, but I wouldn't call it 'feminist' per-s
There is a good book, tells about her life and her novels, and imagined dialogue with her after her death, as if they are speaking, really fun and useful.
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