Word: woolf
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...wild and stormy night on the West Coast of Scotland. This, however, is immaterial to the present story, as the scene is not laid in the West of Scotland." That kind of screwball is still pitched effectively by Monty Python, but it is not a sign of seniority. Virginia Woolf believed that Ring Lardner had "talents of a remarkable order." And so he had. But the episode from You Know Me Al leans hard on misspelling and false naiveté, favorite devices of the novice: "Florrie thinks she has got to have a new dress though...
Rose's earlier book, A Woman of Letters, a study of Virginia Woolf, led her to examine Woolf s passionately propounded notions of sexual equality. Seeking a unifying principle that would link the couples in Parallel Lives, she looked for the dynamics of power within Victorian marriages. Not surprisingly, she concluded that "traditional marriage shores up the power of men in subtle ways." Eliot and Lewes, Rose hypothesizes, may have achieved equality because "sanctioned marriage bears some ineradicable taint which converts the personal relationship between a man and a woman into a political one." An interesting thesis...
...Virginia Woolf celebrated Mme. de Sévigné in a lyrical essay: "This great lady, this robust and fertile letter writer, who in our age would probably have been one of the great novelists ..." Thornton Wilder sketched an invidious portrait of the 17th century French author in The Bridge of San Luis Rey; the poet Alphonse Lamartine called her the Petrarch of French prose; Proust compared her art to Dostoyevsky...
...daughter. In translating the letters the author has frequently coarsened the elegant language of the original. She uses contemporary jargon and cliches-"peer group," "life-style," "role models"-to describe the world of 17th century aristocrats. "One of the great mistresses of the art of speech," as Virginia Woolf characterized Mme. de Sévigné, is said by Mossiker to have "verbalized as naturally as she breathed." Even so, the French writer's voice carries, resonating across the cultural and linguistic divide. For that echo alone, the reader can be grateful. -By Patricia Blake
...LIGHTHOUSE-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...