In The Dark?
ANY litetary people think Virginia Woolf (whose tragic end we so deplore) quite supreme as a novelist, for delicacy of touch, subtlety of thought and her power of suggesting a state of mind by indirect means. But Virginia Woolf will never make a universal appeal because she is too elusive and, try as one will, one can’t always tell what she is driving. at. We read on and on, hoping to find broad daylight instead of just a glimmer on the next page, but no-we are left in the end in the dark. An undercurrent of tragedy, a sense of futility, runs through her books, and she seems to find no meaning in anything. Yet as a critic she ranks high, and her essay "A Room of One’s Own" is a delightfully witty analysis of the-history of women in relation to the writing of fiction.-
("On Novel Reading."
Madeline
Alston
2YA, April 27.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 151, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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156In The Dark? New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 151, 15 May 1942, Page 3
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