Re:Letter to a young poet by Virginia Woolf (1932)
by Mediterraneo10 on Friday June 14, 2019 @05:26PM
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> I still will never understand the level of fame given to Virginia Woolf.
Woolf’s writings, unlike the work many of her contemporaries, deal with issues that are of keen interest to the public today: feminism, homosexual desire, gender queering. Maybe the prominence of these themes in contemporary discourse represents a fad, and in a few decades’ time some other modernist author from the first half of the 20th century will seem more relevant. But for the time being, it is easy to understand why Woolf is hot.
Woolf’s writings, unlike the work many of her contemporaries, deal with issues that are of keen interest to the public today: feminism, homosexual desire, gender queering. Maybe the prominence of these themes in contemporary discourse represents a fad, and in a few decades’ time some other modernist author from the first half of the 20th century will seem more relevant. But for the time being, it is easy to understand why Woolf is hot.