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EZambon - 5B - Modernist Fiction. V. Woolf and J. Joyce - Analysis from the Common Reader - Improved Version
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The extract is taken from "Modern Fiction" in The Common Reader, a critical essay written by Virginia Woolf. It deals about the writer's conventional technique to product a novel in contrast with Virginia Woolf personal idea about the argument. In the first sequence she critics the traditional way to write a novel. The writer seems to be forced by a tyrant to product a novel with a long plot, characters definited in all them features and situations losing in this labour the truth life's imagine.
In the second sequence Virginia Woolf expresses her idea about novelist's role linked with her idea of life. Life is not definited, is not one emotion but unlimited emotions, "an incessant shower of innumerable atoms" she writes. Novelist's role is to express this variability of life without follow the convention of writing.
In the second sequence Virginia Woolf expresses her idea about novelist's role linked with her idea of life. Life is not definited, is not one emotion but unlimited emotions, "an incessant shower of innumerable atoms" she writes. Novelist's role is to express this variability of life without follow the convention of writing.