[Vwoolf] The Painter and the Novelist | by Paul Levy | The New York Review of Books

[David Eberly]

Lit crit goes bigly 

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> On May 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> "the chilly, concealing shade of her younger sister, Virginia Woolf"--what a
> vixen that Virginia was!
> 
> "From Parmar's pages Virginia emerges as an aggressive, often hostile,
> malicious sibling, and a compulsive flirt. Although based on a huge inquiry
> into her letters, diaries, and biographies, Parmar's Virginia is a fictional
> character who is "raving mad and running all over the house shouting
> nonsense."    As Trump would say, "people are saying..."  Not me, of course,
> but "some say...".   A "huge inquiry" (whatever that means, beyond reading
> what's there) comes to the same conclusion as so many British patriarchal
> critics and laddish writers have done about VW.  I am shocked. Shocked!
> 
> And does a review in the prestigious NY Review of Books about three major
> recent exhibitions, plus one of many fictionalized versions of the Stephen
> sisters' lives, and one of myriad recent critical works on Woolf etc. really
> provide evidence that "the attention paid to the Bloomsbury Group seems to
> be waning on both sides of the Atlantic"?
> 
> Stay tuned.
> 
> 
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