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...VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) Her lifespan coincided with that of Joyce, and her interest in creating a new 20th century fiction was as strong as his. But her novels, most notably Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), put women at the center of a changing world and offered a vocabulary of feminism to women and men alike...
Mercifully, some brave soul does eventually speak. Everyone then immediately looks up and gazes pensively into the middle distance, brows furrowed, nodding sagely. This one comment is all Harvard students need to get them going and before long we are locked in vigorous debate, comparing Aristotle, Levi-Strauss, Virginia Woolf and the early years of the Jackson Five. Our work here is done. Finally, it is time for lunch...
Right from his first two films in the mid-'60s (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate), Nichols has trusted original material, pruning carefully, changing little. Nichols and May's film of Primary Colors faithfully distills the 366-page book, excising a few colorful critters (like the caricatures of Mario Cuomo and Jesse Jackson) but bringing the rest to seductive life onscreen. The major elision is the one-night stand Henry has with Susan Stanton...
...faithfulness of the script, the sensitive direction, the first-rate acting--but in the end it's just not enough to add up to a successful transference from novel to film. One comes away from this film with the feeling that it doesn't cut much ice with Virginia Woolf. Which gives this Mrs. Dalloway some claim to respect as a daring experiment--ultimately, it's a failure, but an honorable failure. --Lynn...
...many cases, similarly "deviant"): Hall's partner Una Troubridge first translated the sexually daring French author Colette's works into English; Hall and the English playwright Noel Coward wrote each other into their works; and no lesser lights than the writers of the Bloomsbury Group--including Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster--entered the story when they came to the defense of The Well of Loneliness...