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with the slip of the moon in her hair
Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; "Jacob's Room" wr. c. 1922
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with the slip of the moon in her hair
Virginia Woolf, from The Complete Works; "Jacob's Room" wr. c. 1922
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Painting: Eugène Jansson "Riddarfjärden" 1898
If he is going to get on in the world, he will have to find his tongue.
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
hey!! u talk a lot abt virginia woolf and i want to start reading her works so i was wondering if u have any recommendations abt what to start with?
i love virginia woolf! for starters, i think the general consensus is mrs. dalloway is the best place to begin because it’s linear enough that it’s easy, most of the time, to understand which character’s head you’re inside, but it still employs the stream-of-consciousness “tunneling” technique that characterizes her distinctive style without being quite as abstract as some of her other pieces.
I’m gonna throw out an unpopular opinion and say Jacob’s Room, imo, would be my choice for someone to start with; it’s short, distinctive, easy to read, and, from what I remember (it’s been a few years since I read it), sort of plays with a lot of the ideas about identity she toys around with later on in the Waves which is my all time favorite novel. From there, if you’re interested I would move on to To The Lighthouse, and then the Waves, if you’re doing a tour of her writing. Also I fuck heavily w performance theory, so I would throw Between the Acts up on the Must Read list. She also has a lot of short stories that I really love (and haven’t read all of), and Moments of Being really sheds a light on where her style is sort of coming from.
"There's no such thing as silence," he said positively. "I can hear twenty different sounds on a night like this without counting your voices."
Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf- Jacob’s Room 1922
Nobody sees anyone as he is… They see a whole— they see all sorts of things— they see themselves.
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room