(continued) Two thoughts engaging me at the moment Good art is offering us a kind of transcendental experience we used to get from religion. Art’s primary & only demand is very simple – and at the same time extremely difficult-: you have to slow down if you are to get it. There’s something about slowing…
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James Wood: Virginia Woolf’s Forgetful Selves
PEN American Center – James Wood: Virginia Woolf’s Forgetful Selves. I believe that Woolf, with perhaps the example of the newly translated Chekhov in her mind, introduced absent-mindedness—in all senses of the phrase—to English fiction …
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader
I am starting my Woolf-year with a book that combines Woolf’s own words, with those of readers, writers and researchers. The Mrs. Dalloway Reader is a collection of short stories, diary entries, theoretical writings and personal responses, all leading up to the text itself, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Since its publication (1925), Woolf’s masterpiece has…
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