Tra un atto e l'altro

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  The plot’s nothing

  "Between the Acts is one of Mrs. Woolf’s most seemingly simple books: the plot well integrated, the fancy under deft control. There is even a new calmness, a new clarity. She is not lost in webs of speculation, thin-drawn to incommunicability as in "The Waves," where she wrote, "I desire always to s ... (continue)

  "Between the Acts is one of Mrs. Woolf’s most seemingly simple books: the plot well integrated, the fancy under deft control. There is even a new calmness, a new clarity. She is not lost in webs of speculation, thin-drawn to incommunicability as in "The Waves," where she wrote, "I desire always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams."

  Yet in her "easier" last book, ingeniously the story is played out on three levels - a pageant within a pageant and all within the vaster pageant of creation and infinity. The animal plane, the human and the spiritual, each has function and counterpointal significance.

  As to actual plot, despite the disciplined guidance, what does it amount to, and who seriously cares? Did the plot matter? She shifted and looked over her right shoulder. The plot was only there to beget emotion. Don’t bother about the plot: the plot’s nothing".

  Hudson Strode, Professor of English at the University of Alabama.

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• Paperback 166 Pages
• ISBN-10: 8860888980
• ISBN-13: 9788860888983
• Publisher: Guanda (Le fenici tascabili)
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2009
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