Evidence: | Virginia Woolf to Roger Fry, 6 May 1922:
'I have the most violent cold in the whole parish. Proust's fat volume comes in very handy.
Last night I started on vol 2 [A l'Ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] of him (the novel) and
propose to sink myself in it all day [...] Oh if I could write like that! I cry. And at the moment
such is the astonishing vibration and saturation and intensification that he produces -- theres
[sic] something sexual in it -- that I feel I [italics]can[end italics] write like that, and seize my
pen and then I [italics]can't[end italics] write like that. Scarcely anyone so stimulates the
nerves of language in me: it becomes an obsession. But I must return to Swann.'
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 5 May 1922 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | evening | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Richmond county: Surrey |
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Reader: | Virginia Woolf |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 25 Jan 1882 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Marcel Proust |
Title: | A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 17816 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Virginia Woolf | |
Editor: | Joanne Trautmann Banks | |
Title: | Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1989 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 142-143 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (ed.), Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf (London, 1989), p. 142-143, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=17816, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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