That's exactly what makes literature "come alive" again, though --
reinterpretations, recontextualizations...
Jim
Kim Johnson wrote:
> --- Cecilia Baader <ceciliabaader@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > Well, it's based upon the Michael Cunningham novel
> > of the same name. It's
> > an amazing novel. He interweaves three stories --
> > Virginia Woolf herself
> > with a woman named Clarissa who lives in the East
> > Village and a suffering
> > Californian housewife of about thirty years ago.
>
> does he put words into woolf's mouth? or is he
> quoting/adapting from the letters, diaries, etc.?
>
> sorry, i must say it sounds bizarre: v. woolf, an east
> village clarissa and a cal. housewife.
>
>
>
>
> > Cunningham has somehow made Mrs. Dalloway come alive
> > again.
> >
>
> i never knew she died. thought she was alive and well
> all these years in a novel which bears her name.
>
> kim
>
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