6/2/2023 0 Comments Woolf between the acts![]() ![]() Woolf was recognized by the discriminating as a novelist of first rank. ![]() Her fiction has been predominantly caviar to the general, yet in two of her novels she achieved best sellers-one, "The Years," held the top place on best seller lists for months in 1937. Two are books of criticism of extraordinary perception, and ten are novels, in which she has achieved inimitable distinction. Virginia Woolf has left to posterity a shelf of sixteen volumes that enrich our literature in a very special way. ![]() Up the last work of the sole indisputable genius among contemporary British women-of-letters. It is with curiosity, profound regret, and a cool sort of reverence that one takes "Between the Acts" had been completed before her death, but she was still working on the final revisions when the compulsion for the ultimate escape seized her. ![]() It may well have been a combination of four factors-sorrow over the war with its breeding hatreds the demolishment of herīloomsbury apartment ("They are destroying all the beautiful things!" she cried) the revising of her book, which always caused her pain and the fear of "an old madness" coming over her. Why did she do it? No one knows precisely. Ouse to slip under the water, it was a sad hour for English letters. Hen Virginia Woolf quietly wrote a farewell note to her husband, took her stick-so fixed is habit-and went on her favorite walk across the summery meadows down to the In Her Last Book the English Novelist Again Says the Unsayable ![]()
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