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9552475 No.9552475 [Reply] [Original]

whats woolf's best novel, and why is it To the Lighthouse?

>> No.9552559

>>9552475
shut up
woolf is a hack

>> No.9553028

>>9552475
I wanna fuck that throat until it bleeds.

>> No.9554583

>>9553028
Stop.Virginia is pure.

>> No.9555048

Hey I'm actually curious, is it generally a toss up between Ms dalloway, the waves, and to the light house for her best work?

Also is she difficult to understand? I've read Joyce and enjoyed him mostly but the insane parts I mostly just forced my way through. I found little to no enjoyment in oxen and the sun but the first half of Ulysses as well as Molly's soliloquy are essentially my favourite prose I've read.

How does Woolf hold up to a modernist Titan like Joyce?

>> No.9555052

>>9555048
>Also is she difficult to understand?

Not really, unless you start with The Waves like a retard

>> No.9555076

>>9555048
She isn't nearly as abstruse as Joyce, but much of what she's doing is easily missed if you don't have a strong background in poetry.
I prefer her to Joyce, but I don't like the crazier bits of Joyce at all.

>> No.9555086

>>9554583

no, Jane Austen is pure

Woolf was a bisexual swinger

>> No.9556315

>>9555048
what she writes exists mostly within the context of her work, rather than Joyce's innumerable allusions
that being said, her work could exist alone, but it does not make it easy to follow.
I find her very easy now considering I know what to expect and I read her work very deliberately

>> No.9556986

Out of Dalloway and ttLighthouse the latter is better imho. Still gotta read the Waves though.

Also, if you love Woolf, read Orlando. It's a historical fantasy about her waifu and england and being a writer; great fun.

>> No.9557012

>>9552475
I havent read anything from her, I would but..

I'm afraid of Virginia Woolf.

>> No.9557079

mrs. dalloway is best, get used to it
top contender for best novel of the century

>> No.9557254

>>9555048
She's not as hard to follow as Joyce. But sometimes you might feel the need to re-read a certain sentence because of its length - she and her semicolons can go and on for half a page.

Anyway, Mrs Dalloway is lovely. I haven't read her other writings, but l can definitely recommend that.

>> No.9557293

>>9557254

I second the Mrs. Dalloway recommendation.