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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within - Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read (Hardcover)
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Virginia Woolf, the War Without, the War Within - Her Final Diaries and the Diaries She Read (Hardcover)
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In her third and final volume on Virginia Woolf's diaries, Barbara
Lounsberry reveals new insights about the courageous last years of
the modernist writer's life, from 1929 until Woolf's suicide in
1941. Woolf turned more to her diary-and to the diaries of
others-for support in these years as she engaged in inner artistic
wars, including the struggle with her most difficult work, The
Waves, and as the threat of fascism in the world outside culminated
in World War II. During this period, the war began to bleed into
Woolf's diary entries. Woolf writes about Hitler, Mussolini, and
Stalin; copies down the headlines of the day; and captures how war
changed her daily life. Alongside Woolf's own entries, Lounsberry
explores the diaries of 18 other writers as Woolf read them,
including the diaries of Leo Tolstoy, Dorothy Wordsworth, Guy de
Maupassant, Alice James, and Andre Gide. Lounsberry shows how
reading diaries was both respite from Woolf's public writing and
also an inspiration for it. Tellingly, shortly before her suicide
Woolf had stopped reading them completely. The outer war and
Woolf's inner life collide in this dramatic conclusion to the
trilogy that resoundingly demonstrates why Virginia Woolf has been
called "the Shakespeare of the diary." Lounsberry's masterful study
is essential reading for a complete understanding of this
extraordinary writer and thinker and the development of modernist
literature.
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