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...from James Baldwin to Jean Genet. They all had an influence on me; I think Lorca had the biggest influence. Dostoyevsky had a tremendous influence on me. When I was growing up, we didn’t read female writers, they weren’t in print, including Virginia Woolf, including anyone that you might take for granted and read today. We didn’t have them to read. I think the only woman writer that I read in high school was George Eliot, and it was her worst book, Silas Marner. So I didn’t really...
...Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer, psychologist Katherine Dalsimer explores the relationship between mental illness and artistic genius by putting Virgina Woolf on a psychiatric “couch.” The link between madness and genius has recently become a topic of national attention, especially as this year’s Oscar race focuses on A Beautiful Mind, the story of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash...
...power and that their extraordinary capabilities can act as a form of therapy. In A Beautiful Mind, for instance, Nash claims to “solve” his schizophrenia with the same part of his brain that he uses to solve mathematical puzzles. In her psychoanalysis of Virginia Woolf, Dalsimer provides a thoughtful, elegant exploration of the idea that a creative outlet can enable an artist to escape her inner life...
...Becoming a Writer, Dalsimer constructs a psychological portrait of Virgina Woolf by analyzing Woolf’s own work, fictional and non-fictional, and inferring Woolf’s emotional state from her writings. In weaving together analysis of Woolf’s major novels, To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, with excerpts from Woolf’s letters and diaries in which she describes her feelings at the time that she was writing, Dalsimer provides a solid framework for her subtle literary inferences. She draws on an impressive compilation of Woolf’s writings, from the weekly newspaper...
...space of a few months toward the end of last year, one young woman was shot in the head and several other people brutally beaten in cell-phone robberies. In January Lord Woolf, Britain's most senior judge, ruled that all mobile-phone thieves should be given custodial sentences regardless of their age. Several teenagers have already felt the force of the edict - and two weeks ago Abdullahi Fidow, 16, was sentenced to six years in a young offenders' institution for his role in two violent robberies involving cell phones...