[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 165 KB, 800x1093, JFC6k18.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863097 No.4863097[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Is Virginia Woolf the best female writer of all time?

>> No.4863104
File: 31 KB, 233x358, 1362858119007.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863104

Yes.

>> No.4863110

Le Guin is my personal favorite, but by elite literary standards, Woolf might be the best. Wait, Middlemarch is better than anything Woolf ever wrote, so I'll go with George Eliot. Woolf's definitely one of the best, though.

>> No.4863117

>>4863110

>Wait, Middlemarch is better than anything Woolf ever wrote, so I'll go with George Eliot.

middlemarch is staid and boring compared to the waves. doesn't come close. plus yourcenar is better than eliot.

>> No.4863118

woolf is one of the few female writers i thoroughly enjoy reading

not one cringe inducing 'muh feminism rights' bs

>> No.4863123

>>4863117
>Yourcenar is better than Eliot

Thanks for reminding me of her. I've been meaning to read Memoirs of Hadrian.

>> No.4863129

>>4863118
A Room of One's Own is perhaps THE preeminent feminist text, at least that I know of. But you're right that it's not the annoying kind of feminism we've all grown sick of. It's much more palatable.

>> No.4863132

>>4863097
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”

yes

>> No.4863136
File: 36 KB, 220x338, ToTheLighthouse.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863136

>About to start a thread about her
>see this
I love you guys.

I've been reading To the Lighthouse and could not stop declaiming her sentences out loud.

What of her other novels are on par with TtL ? I heard Mrs Dalloway was amazing aswell.

>> No.4863139

>>4863129

>A Room of One's Own is perhaps THE preeminent feminist text

lol no

beauvoir's second sex trumps it easily

>> No.4863140

>>4863136
the waves is known as her masterpiece

>> No.4863144

>>4863136

The Waves > To the Lighthouse > Mrs Dalloway

>> No.4863147

>anyone but Ayn Rand

>> No.4863148

she isnt just the best female writer of all time

shes one of the best writers in the english language

>> No.4863154

>>4863148

somehow i think being often considered the top of a gender is a bit more impressive than being near the top of your language pool, m8

>> No.4863157

>>4863154
we're talking about females anon

>> No.4863161

>>4863144
>>4863140
New book added to my backlog. Thank you, guys !

>>4863148
She and Joyce are the absolute masters of the Stream of Consciousness style.

>> No.4863194

fuck shes cute

>> No.4863235

>>4863194

na, son. that's like her only half decent photo

>> No.4863247

>>4863194
she really isn't

>> No.4863269

>>4863235
I dunno I quite like her selfies <3 have you seen her tumblr?

>> No.4863300

>>4863097
Is that really her? Damn she's beautiful

>> No.4863301

>tfw she was never happy
>tfw she heard birds singing in Greek
>tfw she drowned herself in the Ouse

>> No.4863346

>>4863123
It's excellent, and as sexist as it sounds I am awestruck by the fact that one of the best built male character was written by a woman.

>> No.4863372

w2c bipolar creativity

>> No.4863440
File: 39 KB, 948x1185, woolf_200-5502565f827df8225fa2a8ebf67d1343afff64d2-s6-c30.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863440

>>4863300
...

>> No.4863449
File: 197 KB, 500x351, 1372739989919.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863449

>>4863301

>>tfw she heard birds singing in Greek
>>tfw she drowned herself in the Ouse

Sappho went out by strumming her lyre while leaping off a cliff into the ocean.

>tfw I will never have some fatalistic poetic waifu

>> No.4863462

i'm glad she's finally getting some love from this board

>> No.4863463

>>4863462

All the patricians on this board like her.

She gets mentions all the time.

>> No.4863533

>>4863449
>Sappho
>Waifu
Unless you're a female, I have bad news for you. Here's a hint, she was born is Lesbos.

>> No.4863538

no that's feminister :)

>> No.4863558

>>4863097
what a dump

>> No.4863571
File: 34 KB, 336x500, Memoirs of Hadrian.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4863571

>Memoirs of Hadrian is a novel by the Belgian writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian
Oh! I have this in the wrong folder. Thanks for the mention. Now I want it even more.

I started with Woolf's Dalloway. Been looking for The Waves (and Beauvoir. Guess I'll have to order that one)

>> No.4863579

>>4863440
>old age

>> No.4864298

>>4863533
"Say lovely heart, that dost my heart command,
Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand?"

>> No.4864344

>>4863136
yess I'm readying this now too and feel the exact same way.

I got hit with some crazy feels when Tansley got all that pride from escorting Mrs. Ramsey around town and I remembered one of the only times I'd ever felt something like that.

>> No.4864682
File: 648 KB, 1201x1772, clarice-lispector.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4864682

Those who like Virginia Woolf would probably also really like the Brazilian author Clarice Lispector. She's been compared frequently, and her books "The Passion According to G.H" and "The Hour of the Star" Are among my favourites.

>> No.4864694
File: 182 KB, 1036x654, 1381177163584.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4864694

>>4864682
Oooh, now she's a qt.

>> No.4864696

>>4863097
I think this thread needs to address the apple/orange problem of a nomination of Marianne Moore as the greatest female poet of all time.

>> No.4864703

>>4863136
the waves is my favourite thing ever written by anyone

>> No.4864712

>>4864682
>>4864694
I'd inspect her lips if you know what I mean.

>> No.4864714
File: 151 KB, 300x460, The-Passion-According-to-GH_300_460.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4864714

>>4864694
>>4864682

And also probably the best South American female prose writer.

An excerpt from "The Passion According to G.H"

"Everything else here had dried up—but one cockroach had remained. A cockroach so old it was immemorial. What had always disgusted me about cockroaches was that they were obsolete and at the same time still living. Knowing that they had been on Earth in the same form as they have today even before the first dinosaurs had appeared, knowing that the first man to come forth had found them crawling across the ground in hoards, knowing that they had seen the formation of the great deposits of coal and oil in the world, were there during the great glacial advances and retreats—peaceful resistance. I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And even after you step on them they come apart slowly and keep on walking all the while. Even when they freeze, after they thaw out they keep on going. For three hundred and fifty million years, they have reproduced with no change. When the world was practically naked, they walked slowly across it."

>> No.4864715

my favorite is Flannery O'Connor. Eudora Welty is another. I also really like Toni Morrison although /lit/ seems to not like her. If all you've read is Beloved, try Song of Solomon.

>> No.4864722
File: 79 KB, 382x387, 1352474741657.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4864722

>>4864714

>> No.4864755
File: 10 KB, 429x410, 1384185616197.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4864755

>>4864714
>dat cockroach sentimentality

>> No.4864989

>>4863463
>Woolf
>patrician
kek. babbys first muh prose modernist garabe

>> No.4865046

>>4864989
kill yourself plen

>> No.4865090

>>4865046
did i hurt ur feelings :^(
kek

>> No.4865095

>>4863533
As if she wouldn't have been two drinks away from me.

>> No.4865137

>>4864989
Better than most American modernists including Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald. Also, one of very few great female writers(the only one better being Djuna Barnes).

>> No.4865156

Angela Carter is my favorite, but it's hard to find anything bad to say about Woolf.

>> No.4865224

>>4865137
>Barnes
>good
kekked. lol this thread is infested by muh purple prose retards

>> No.4865256

>>4864344
That fucking part.
>Charles Tansley felt an extraordinary pride; a man digging in a drain stop digging and looked at her, let his arm fall down and looked at her, for the first time in his life Charles Tansley felt an extraordinary pride; felt the wind and the cyclamen and the violets for he was walking with a beautiful woman. He had hold of her bag.

>> No.4865302

>>4863097
nope, jane austen

>> No.4865489

>>4865224
literal autism

>> No.4865509

>>4865224
>read ryder as original work not satire and homage
anon pls, pull the other one. be bothered by her portrayal of jews or something

>> No.4865520

>>4865224
someone doesnt know what purple prose means

>> No.4865551

>>4863139
I'll even go as far to say that A Room of One's Own is more important for writers than for women. Le Deuxième Sexe is fundamental to feminism.

>> No.4865567

>>4865520
What does it mean?

>> No.4865576

>>4865567
>In literary criticism, purple prose is written prose that is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw excessive attention to itself.

none of these writers use purple prose.
they use prose
but not purple prose

>> No.4865580

>>4865576
Can you give me an example of a writer who does use purple prose?

>> No.4865593

>>4865580
i cant name a writer off the top of my head who uses purple prose

just look in the writing critique threads on here, its filled with it

an example could be taking 4 sentences to describe a tree.
this would be ok if the writing style was all about descriptions, but if it is just a random insertion of a highly descriptive prose it would be purple prose

>> No.4865603

>>4865580

ambrose bierce

>> No.4865618

>>4865580
hemingway and tolstoy obviously

>> No.4865620

>>4865618
oh fuck i thought that said 'didn't'

>> No.4865667

Anyone have any thoughts on how Woolf's writings can be applied to postcolonial critique?

>> No.4865677

>>4865667

>trying to sneak an essay question in

No dice.

>> No.4865683

>>4865603
Yeah, but he uses it for the same reason Sterne does.

>> No.4865684

>>4865667
theres this amazing thing called a search engine
not sure if you've heard about them

>> No.4865801
File: 110 KB, 627x597, 1399348550303.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
4865801

>>4865224

>> No.4865804

>>4865801
The fence itself wasn't blue.

>> No.4865858

Where to start with Virginia Woolf?

>> No.4865860

>>4865801
>>4865804

fukken REKT

>> No.4865870

>>4865137
>thinking any writer in existence was ever better than faulkner

>> No.4865885

>>4865858
With her first book, as you would with any other author.

>> No.4866003

>>4865885
>>>>>/mu/

>> No.4866053

>>4866003
>>>/wikipedia/

>> No.4866068

>>4863097
Flannery O'Connor.