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...HAUNTED HOUSE-Virginia Woolf -Harcourt, Brace...
...best novels Virginia Woolf achieved the miracle that writers pray for. No other novelist possessed quite the same gift. Her readers were suddenly and magically transported into the heart of the life of her characters. It was a slightly disconcerting experience, like stepping into a large, friendly, glowing party, where you knew no one, and being made to feel at home - understanding their intimate talk, enjoying what they enjoyed, and, when they suffered, bearing with them as with people you loved...
This quality made all of Virginia Woolf 's writing unique, and her best novels as un forgettable as intimate personal experiences...
...short stories, like her experimental novels, were an other matter. They were like fragments of meteorites over which geologists might puzzle: containing traces of unquestionably valuable metal, with delicate markings and crystal patterns of great beauty and rarity, but of as little appreciable utility as most meteorites. Virginia Woolf wrote short stories all her life, sketching them out in very rough form and putting them away in a drawer to mellow. Or she wrote them to rest her mind while she was writing her novels. Published last week was a posthumous collection of 18, selected by her husband, Leonard Woolf...
...taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is a harsh story for anyone to have written, incredibly harsh for Virginia Woolf. More characteristic is the mood of The Lady in the Looking-Glass, with its picture of a house in mid summer: "The room that afternoon was full of such shy creatures, lights and shadows, curtains blowing, petals falling - things that never happen, so it seems, if someone is looking. . . . Since...