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...LETTERS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, VOL. VI: 1936-1941 Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 556 pages...
...letter writing," Virginia Woolf wrote in 1930, "has now reached a stage, thanks to the penny post and telephone, where it is not dead-that is the last word to apply to it-but so much alive as to be quite unprintable. The best letters of our time are precisely those that can never be published...
...changes since Horace Walpole or, later, those Victorian worthies enshrined in three-decker "Lives and Letters." Vanished are the leisurely epistles addressed to a quasi-public circle of acquaintances (and, between the lines, to posterity); the 20th century goes elsewhere for its literary entertainment and journalism. In all of Woolf's 3,710 collected letters-here rounded off in the last of six stout volumes that have been coming out since 1975-she scarcely ever troubles to paint a scene or describe great events; even wars are kept to the background: "I write with the usual air raid going...
...sides of the feminine psyche. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, written when she was pregnant (an almost continuous state for her from ages 17 to 21), is put in the context of responding to Milton's Paradise Lost, dealing with his concept of the "Monstrous Eve" which Virginia Woolf (who pops up frequently in this text) called "Milton's Bogey...
...nudity rule was modified after a long debate over The Pawnbroker. The film had several brief scenes showing a woman's breasts. But otherwise it was a serious effort and the nudity was or ganic to the artistic purpose. Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? escaped a B or C rating though it turned the air blue with foul language. So long as the advertising stressed that it was for adults only, the film office judged it worthwhile for showing...