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I've read this book several times and each time it is a fresh experience. Familiar in some ways, the plot, such as it is, certainly but the language newly amazes me each time, I wish I could just memorize the entire book. And then the ways in which it deals with loss, grief, family dynamics are always enlightening and thought-provoking.
This book is one of the greats and I'm too intimidated by it (and its long critical history) to attempt a review. Suffice it to say, it is a short book, quickly r ...more
This book is one of the greats and I'm too intimidated by it (and its long critical history) to attempt a review. Suffice it to say, it is a short book, quickly r ...more
This book, written in a poetics of the body, is one of my all-time favorites. For me, it is a masterpiece. Not least because it examines the dialectical relationship between Life and Art. For Woolf, Mrs. Ramsey's meal - her creation - is a metaphor for the nature of creativity. Artist writer figures in the work show forth the nature of this creativity. Woolf wanted to show that we create Life, just as artist/writer figures create Art. I love the sentiment that we each have a part to play in the
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Please see my review for a different edition of the same work
People think too much. We overanalyze anything and everything and we suffer for it. This is true.
Jul 18, 2023
Kamakana
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Dec 10, 2019
Maia Ciobanu
marked it as to-read
Jan 15, 2018
meowdeleine
marked it as to-read
