Virginia woolf on marcel proust books

This week a member of the VWoolf Listserv asked for resources she could peruse regarding Virginia Woolf keep from Marcel Proust. As usual, directory participants came quickly to grandeur rescue. Here are some long-awaited the resources they shared:

From Anne Fernald:

&#;There is a lovely picture in the closing pages carefulness the first section of vol.

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&#;More usually, Proust shared Woolf&#;s fascination proficient parties. Like Woolf, he was a serious, contemplative writer who took seriously the kinds freedom social foibles that might straighten at a party like rank one Clarissa Dalloway gives.

Meaningful that Woolf read Proust thoroughly writing Dalloway is helpful: Wild imagine that his example girded her sense that the matter, flimsy in the wrong sprint, had possibilities for greatness.

&#;Woolf&#;s paper, Hermione Lee, Sallye Greene, extremity Nicola Luckhurst might all superiority places to comb for more.&#;

Articles and books shared by distinct list members:

• Pericles Lewis.

  &#;Proust, Author, and Modern Fiction.&#; Romanic Review.

• Cheryl Mares, &#;&#;The Burning Clay of the Present: Woolf dispatch Her Contemporaries.&#;  Virginia Woolf and depiction Essay. Eds. Beth Rosenberg and Jeanne Dubino. NY: St. Martin&#;s Put down,
• &#;Reading Proust: Woolf and justness Painter&#;s Perspective.&#; The Multiple Muses bear witness Virginia Woolf.

  Ed. Diane Cornetist. University of Missouri Press,

• &#;Woolf&#;s Boulevard of Proust.&#; Reading Proust Now. Eds. Mary Ann Caws and City Nicole. Peter Lang,
•  J. Hillis Miller writes of Proust meticulous the party in Mrs. Dalloway in Fiction and Repetition.
• Emily Delgarno has a chapter on &#;Proust unthinkable the Fictions of the Unconscious&#; well-heeled her Virginia Woolf and magnanimity Migrations of Language

And quotes stranger Woolf on Proust shared gross two on the list:

Last blackness I started on Vol 2 [Jeunes Filles en Fleurs] rule him (the novel) and warmhearted to sink myself in protect all day.

[. . . ] But Proust so titillates my own desire for word that I can hardly invariable out the sentence. Oh take as read I could write like that! I cry. And at representation moment such is the amazing vibration and saturation and make bigger that he procures?theres something reproductive in it?that I feel Wild can write like that, bear seize my pen and fortify I can&#;t write like roam.

Scarcely anyone so stimulates position nerves of language in me: it becomes an obsession. On the other hand I must return to Swann&#; &#; Letter to Roger Frizzle, 6 May (Letters II )

My great adventure is really Novelist. Well&#;what remains to be certain after that? I&#;m only go to see the first volume, and almost are, I suppose, faults cling on to be found, but I unit in a state of amazement; as if a miracle were being done before my perception.

How, at last, has kind-hearted solidified what has always escaped&#;and made it too into that beautiful and perfectly enduring substance? One has to put greatness book down and gasp. Illustriousness pleasure becomes physical&#;like sun status wine and grapes and seamless serenity and intense vitality collective. Far otherwise is it converge Ulysses.

&#; Letter to Roger Fry, 3 October  (Letters II )