[Vwoolf] Query: Woolf "quote?" by Deleuze

[Johnson, Melissa]

Hello,


I write in hopes that some one on this list can clear something up for me. In my reading I continually come across the reference that Gilles Deleuze makes to Woolf in his essay "Literature and Life." From how it has been quoted by others I thought that Deleuze was quoting Woolf, but when I go to his essay he doesn't quote at all, simply writes:


"To those who ask what literature is, Virginia Woolf responds: To whom are you speaking of writing? The writer does not speak about it, but is concerned with something else."


My question: was Deleuze quoting, or even paraphrasing Woolf? If so, from where? Any reference I find simply references Deleuze, and doesn't follow up with a reference to Woolf.


Thanks in advance!

Melissa


Dr. Melissa Johnson, Ph.D., MILS

Associate Professor

Art History/Visual Culture

Graduate Coordinator, MA in Visual

   Culture

214C Center for Visual Arts

School of Art Box 5620

Illinois State University

Normal IL 61790


(309) 438-8170

majohn2 at ilstu.edu

http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/art/graduate/visual_culture/

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