Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf

She sets out to show us the continuity of life, man as the inheritor of all the past. She does it with a beautiful lightness and indirection...

In this novel, more than in any of her others, Virginia Woolf glances at rather than stresses the themes that preoccupy her; the light of a darting, whimsical humour plays over them.

Mrs Swithin's vision of evolution is the ultimate background of the book; the nearer background is the history of England, realized in a pageant - a brilliant parody of any village pageant - enacted by the villagers...

'But there is also that other abiding obsession of Virginia Woolf's, of art as the unifying principle of life. Art is represented by the pageant, and the pageant-mistress, Miss La Trobe, is the eternal artist... Miss La Trobe, indeed, is Virginia Woolf's burlesque of herself as artist, and through her she states the truth about the artist and his unceasing endeavour to make his audience see ...' Walter Allen in Tradition and Dream

Details

• Paperback
• State: Good, no notes/stamps, the cover shows natural signs of aging, the spine was not yet cracked open
  
• ISBN: 014000896
• Maison d'édition: Penguin Modern Classics, 1974