[Vwoolf] Six ou sept?

[Jeremy Hawthorn]

So Percival is not in search of a hero. Or is it that he /is/ the hero 
(he surely is for Neville)? It's interesting, flicking through critics 
and commentaries, to note the alternation between "six friends" and 
"seven friends." Thus my World's Classics edition edited by Gillian Beer 
(1992) has on the back cover "/The Waves/ (1931) traces the lives and 
interactions of seven friends . . .", while on the second page of her 
Introduction Beer writes that "/The Waves/ . . . has to do with the 
sexual life, with the six persons of one woman."

Jeremy H


On 04.10.2020 09:52, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf wrote:
 >
 >    "Six personnages en quête d'un hero"
 >
 >                (Pingaud, B., "L'Express", 23 Jan 1958)
 >
 >
 > Stuart
 > (Day 201)

-- 
Jeremy Hawthorn
Emeritus Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
7491 Trondheim
Norway

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