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...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
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...significance of Virginia Woolf's† last novel, Mrs. Dalloway, was that her "stream of consciousness" method was not only startlingly original but startlingly successful as well. In To the Lighthouse the stream-of-consciousness technique is present as before but its presence is subtler, more diffused. Weaving, stalking, spying from thickets, she discovers the nature of her prey. The actual capture she leaves to those who, reading her book, are her companions in the chase...
...LIGHTHOUSE-Virginia Woolf-Harcourt, Brace...