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"Virginia Woolf Intro"
Virginia Woolf was a great writer. Her voice is distinctive; her style is her own; her work is an active influence on other writers and a subtle influence on what we have come to expect from modern literature. - More on Virginia Woolf's booksShe was an experimenter who managed to combine the pleasure of narrative with those forceful interruptions ( Read more... ) -
Split Identity, Kaleidoscope of Identities
Foreigner: a choked up rage deep down in my throat, a black angel clouding transparency, opaque, unfathomable spur. The image of hatred and of the other, a foreigner is neither the romantic victim of our clannish indolence nor the intruder responsible for all the ills of the polis. Neither the apocalypse on the move nor the instant adversary to be ( Read more... ) -
Paradoxical
Observe how the soul is always casting her own lights and shadows; makes the substantial hollow and the frail substantial; fills broad daylight with dreams; is as much excited by phantoms as by reality; and in the moments of death sports with a trifle. Observe, too, her duplicity, her complexity. She hears of a friend's loss and sympathises, and ( Read more... ) -
A Light Without Representation
For those who are racked by melancholia, writing about it would have meaning only if writing sprang out of that very melancholia. I am trying to address an abyss of sorrow, a noncommunicable grief that at times, and often on a long-term basis, lays claims upon us to the extent of having us lose all interest in words, actions, and even life itself. ( Read more... ) -
Readings
There are readings--of the same text--that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that count grey little pronouns for pleasure or instruction and for a time do not hear golden or apples. There are personal readings, which snatch for personal meanings, I am full of love, or disgust, or fear, I ( Read more... ) -
"Silence"
A passage excerpt from the early and late typescripts of Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, originally Pointz Hall, (1941 ( Read more... )
