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RE: Dialogue Between Woolf's "The Mark on the Wall" and O’Brien’s "Good Form"
What a great expose on the various kinds of truth. Nice work! I've read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. It's very good. My son just had to read it in senior English as well, so I re-read some of the stories in order to discuss with him. It's a very powerful collection. I studied Virginia Woolf back in graduate school and am a huge fan. It's interesting to juxtapose these two authors against one another. It wouldn't have crossed my mind!
Thank you, @Jayna. I really appreciate your comment; you know I am your fan ♥
This is an essay I wrote in graduate school, twenty years ago in North American Lit (we were studying O Brien's "How to Tell a True War Story"; I liked it so much that I read the whole book); I told my teacher I liked to establish dialogues between "distant authors," and that I knew some stories by Woolf which would be perfect. I was afraid she would say no because Woolf is British, but she said there was no problem, so I did it. I have other dialogues, but so far I had not dared to publish them on my blog because I would have to revise and edit those old papers, but I am doing it now.
My mind does as it pleases these days. My head and my heart are deep into what is happening in my country, so I guess I'll be using old, unpublished material to keep my blog going.
Thanks for your words. Huge hug! ☻