Comparison of Woolf and Howard
thoughts on Robert E Howard and Virginia Woolf, two of my favorite authors, and a brief comparison, if I may be so bold...."To the Light House" was Virginia Woolf's best book I think. She was very much like Robert E Howard (author of fantasy and Conan series) in her connection to her mother and father. Howard's Best work was The Scarlet Citadel, I think. He wrote mostly short fantasy stories. His character Conan, became very famous, but Howard's writing had never been given proper notice, when I feel It should have!!! He is the best fantasy writer ever, in my eyes. Anyway, back to the comparisons.... when Howard's mother died, Howard went out to his car and shot himself, when Woolf's mother died, she went out to a lake, put rocks in her pockets and then waded out in the water and drown herself. Both writers are the best introspective, guttural writers I have ever read. Their motivations and developments of characters come from real places within them, and they seemingly wrote with ease. I know both authors are far apart on subject matter, but their trueness to inner thought and even their pains came out in their writing, and made their prose more vivid and emotionally driven, and sadly, it was their depression that also took them both too soon.
Published on March 04, 2021 23:06
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