[Vwoolf] Woolf and Byatt
Laurie Reiche
p.reiche at comcast.net
Sat Aug 9 17:13:44 EDT 2014
Though I haven't been in on these conversations all that much, I would love to participate in this online book reading study. (Though I am, at the moment, immersed in the Woolf & Music book that just came in the mail yesterday--hurrah!) I'll keep a look-out for further information. Warm Regards, Laurie
On Aug 9, 2014, at 1:03 PM, Elisa Sparks <SPARKS at clemson.edu> wrote:
> Just finished A.S. Byatt's first novel, Shadow of the Sun, a sad rather dark book. Was thinking how interesting it would be to juxtapose it to Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, also about the thwarting of a young girl's initiation into maturity. The next Byatt novel is The Game, about two sisters whose intersecting manipulations of fiction and reality ruin their lives...some similar themes to Woolf's sunnier second novel, Night and Day. This produced the following intriguing little chart (of course I have every hope that Byatt produces another few novels, which will destroy this fearful symmetry.) And yes, I do know exactly how much Byatt would detest this comparison. Nevertheless, would love to start a reader's group of some kind to plot through these pairings. Was thinking at least a month per pair. Anyone interested? Can be long-distance.
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> I am currently contemplating another Woolf/O’Keeffe paper for next year’s conference, but it strikes me that this could turn into a panel. Or perhaps a workshop.
> Elisa
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> A.S. Byatt: Novels/ Virginia Woolf : Novels
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> 1964 The Shadow of the Sun/
> 1915 The Voyage Out
> 1967 The Game/ 1919 Night and Day
> 1978 The Virgin in the Garden/
> 1922 Jacob’s Room
> 1985 Still Life/ 1925 Mrs. Dalloway
> 1990 Possession: A Romance/
> 1927 To the Lighthouse
> 1997 Babel Tower/ 1928 Orlando
> 2000 The Biographer's Tale/ 1933 Flush
> 2002 A Whistling Woman/
> 1931 The Waves
> 2009 The Children's Book/ 1937 The Years
> 2011 Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
> 1941 Between the Acts
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