[Vwoolf] Michael Cunningham attempts to explain Woolf's importance: "Mom is adoring and nurturing and ever-so-slightly out of touch."

[Gregory Jordan Dekter]

>From The Guardian Books Blog, July 16:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/jul/16/michael-cunningham-folio-joyce-woolf

Forgetting the cliched gender analogy, this article isn't doing Woolf or
Joyce any favours. Cunningham seems overly focused on personal traits which
1) he doesn't even support and 2) he twists the meaning of to be
sensational. What about facilitating a discussion on the importance of
these works, instead of baseless (and ultimately uninteresting) claims
about their authors?

Also: "Woolf, in To the Lighthouse, is Winnicott's good-enough mother, the
one who's able to love her children while simultaneously urging them
towards lives of their own, beyond her reach or influence." Does Cunningham
think Woolf and Mrs Ramsay are the same? Certainly he knows that an author,
narrator, and character are all completely different things? But then, what
could he mean by this?
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