DOSSIER – A novel about his youth, the original manuscript of Mrs Dalloway, an essay on London, films, theater… The great Englishwoman who disappeared in 1941 finally comes out of oblivion.
–She had disappeared for years. His books were becoming rarer in bookstores. On the shelves, between Wolfe Tom and Zafon Ruiz Carlos, there was now a void. As if Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) had to pay for her modernist audacity. For her desire to put aside the classic novel, the classic narrative, for something more complex where everything is fragmented. A literature that allows him to enter more deeply into the minds and moods of his characters. A literature placing the flows of consciousness at the forefront. The other “modernists” of the XXe century, the Proust, Joyce, Faulkner experienced eclipses, but shorter, and Faulkner benefited from the aura of the Nobel Prize. Virginia Woolf did not receive it. How the Swedish Academy could, in 1938, prefer the tasteless Pearl Buck to the author of Mrs Dalloway, Towards the lighthouse, Orlando, Waves? She recognizes today on this site this error among others.
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