
Biography and Fiction in Virginia Woolf's Novels
Unveiling the Relationship Between Biography and Fiction in Virginia Woolf's Work
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The present book tries to show that without reading about Virginia Woolf's life, one could not understand well the message of her work. Woolf uses her diary to create a rather fictional work and her novels to create a sort of autobiography- there are many things in the novels that have a correspondent in her life. Her diary is a kind of fictional work, while her novels are turned into a kind of diary. We can easily find her parents in To the Lighthouse- she even admits it.We can "build" Thoby's image from the novel Jacob's Room and we can find "the perfect human being" that, as i have tried to...
The present book tries to show that without reading about Virginia Woolf's life, one could not understand well the message of her work. Woolf uses her diary to create a rather fictional work and her novels to create a sort of autobiography- there are many things in the novels that have a correspondent in her life. Her diary is a kind of fictional work, while her novels are turned into a kind of diary. We can easily find her parents in To the Lighthouse- she even admits it.We can "build" Thoby's image from the novel Jacob's Room and we can find "the perfect human being" that, as i have tried to show, could be Woolf in The Waves.This book tries to demonstrate that a good mastering of Virginia Woolf's life is the most important step in the reader's attempt to understand the messages she is conveying in her novels.