Virginia Woolf
Wirginia Wooolf is one of the
most important avant-garde writer of the women litterary movement in the
beginning of this century.
She was born in a litterary
and intellectual family, but she had never gone to college: she just studied in
her father library.At the age of thirteen she had her first nervous break-down
and she began fighting with her aggressive father .She took part in the
'Bloomsbury Group' , in which there were many artist , writers and
intellectuals in general.In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf and she began to
have really hard headhakes , until she attempted suicide with some drugs. In
1917 she founded with her husband a publishing company, which chose to promote
the writings of talented young authors.The Second World War increased her anxiety
and fears. At the age of fifty-nine she chose to drow herself in the river
Ouse.
She used the interior
monologue, that let the author enter in the character's reality, in the
character's mind. In the same way, the sream of consciousness let her enter in the
character's interiority: memories, dreams, wills.
But she didn't use this
narrative techniques in the same way Joyce used it in his novels: infact she
didn't like psychoanalisis theories and she refused everything derived from the
Freudian 'Es'.
Virginia decided to write
without be influenced by male-patterns.
In some of her novels she
showed her neo-feminist ideals , like in 'Orlando' and 'A room
of one's own' , in which she defended man's sexual ambiguity and women's
right to be economicaly indipendent.
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