| Popis: |
Above all, Virginia Woolf saw the War as a writer. Her view was detached and sometimes idiosyncratic, as her play with metaphor suggests. Her opposition to war was complete, but she expressed this most directly in a polemic, Three Guineas (1938), written when World War 2 was clearly in sight. When she represents the First War in fiction, she does so in a way that is contemplative, often domestic. The War does not figure in terms of mud or barbed wire but rather through its points of contact with the ‘ordinary’ life left behind, and in its destruction of a secure past. It is not possible to isolate or define Woolf’s ‘view’ on war,2 only to follow its echoes in her work — but these, in Jacob’s Room and in Mrs Dalloway, give a new dimension to the genre of ’war novel’. |
