Virginia Woolf by Julia Briggs

Author:Julia Briggs [Briggs, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Years. Instead, and surprisingly, given her initial reaction, Vita asked for The Waves. Leonard refused her request, and eventually sent her the manuscript of Mrs Dallo way, explaining that he might one day ‘write something about Virginia’s actual method of writing. I should like to compare her first draft with the final draft and also with what she says in her diaries at the moment about writing them. It happens that the last part of The Waves is extraordinarily interesting from this point of view as she gives a description in her diary of the actual writing of it.’132 Woolf’s careful self-documentation (‘I want to trace my own process’) unfolds a story of the artist’s extraordinary faith in her own vision long before she could see where it might take her – the somnambulist picking her way along the tightrope of words. Near the end of his life, arguing with the novelist Dan Jacobson about Bloomsbury’s achievements, Leonard told him that he thought The Waves ‘a very considerable work of art. I do not think that any of my wife’s other books come near it.’ 133

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