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Is Virginia Woolf the greatest writer of all time?

>> No.12284406

ew

>> No.12284416

it's Christmas not April Fools

>> No.12284420

No, faggot, Jordan Peterson is.

>> No.12284430
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>Woolf's tendentious expressions, including prejudicial feelings against disabled people have often been the topic of academic criticism:
>The first quotation is from a diary entry of September 1920 and runs "[t]he fact is the lower classes are detestable." The remainder follow the first in reproducing stereotypes standard to upper-class and upper-middle class life in the early twentieth century: "imbeciles should certainly be killed"; "Jews" are greasy; a "crowd" is both an ontological "mass" and is, again, "detestable"; "Germans" are akin to vermin; some "baboon faced intellectuals" mix with "sad green dressed negroes and negresses, looking like chimpanzees" at a peace conference; Kensington High St. revolts one's stomach with its innumerable "women of incredible mediocrity, drab as dishwater"

>> No.12284441

>>12284430
>"Germans" are akin to vermin
bold words for a filthy anglo

>> No.12284444

>>12284404
Do you have any idea what year was this picture taken? she looks beautiful and candid.

>> No.12284447

>>12284430
Man, hearing women say shit like that really turns me on. It almost makes me think they're humans that can think for themselves.

>> No.12284458

>>12284444
checked, but she only looks passable in profile

>> No.12284461

>>12284430
I didn't know she was so absolutely BASED

>> No.12284467

>>12284444
>cross-eyed
>these horrible bags
>this giant schnozz
>this crooked smile
>beautiful
You're from UK, aren't you?

>> No.12284484

>>12284444
She looks absolutely bonkers friend

>> No.12284495
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>>12284484
Would someone who's absolutely bonkers write something this beautiful?

>> No.12284504

>>12284430
Germans > Anglos tbf

>> No.12284510

>>12284495
>simile simile simile simile
Jesus, it's like reading a middle school essay.
>the sea is like the sky but wrinkled lmao
>the waves move back and forth and so does the breast of a sleeping person!
Absolutely cringe. Is this unironically the best prose bongs are capable of?

>> No.12284531

>>12284404
>>12284444
Seconded. I'm in love.

>> No.12284600
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>>12284430
Wtf why?? Why does she have to be a pleb subjected to prejudice? I really liked her guys

>> No.12284635

>>12284444
Do you eat shit?

>> No.12284648

>>12284404
Good writer
Bad swimmer

>> No.12284650

>>12284404
bloodless anglo zombie

>> No.12284678

>>12284600
Everyone is prejudiced to some extent. It's just part of human nature. Anyone who claims they're not prejudiced is lying.

>> No.12285159
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>>12284430
OUR GIRL

>> No.12285179

bunga bunga

>> No.12285183

>>12284444
Best bait I’ve seen on here in some time. Fitting that it would get those digits.

>> No.12285199

>>12284467
You’re a virgin, arent you?

>> No.12285219

>>12284444
she's as beautiful as your trips are satanic

>> No.12285232

>>12284404
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/05/bloomsbury-dreadnought-hoax-recalled-letter

>> No.12285236
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>h-hey anon, do you want to get together and write a short story?

>> No.12285259

>>12285199
Not even a desperate virgin would find that horrid Anglo attractive

>> No.12285262

>>12284510
She writes what she sees as she sees it and what it reminds her of. If you don't appreciate it that's fine, as my Dad says: it's like feeding caviar to pigs.

>> No.12285265
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>>12285199
>not liking a typical post expiration date bony bong harpy
>being a virgin
No, but I can tell you are.

>> No.12285269
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>>12285232
Virginia on the far left

>> No.12285279

>>12285262
>it's like feeding caviar to pigs
It's more like pretending that literal shit tastes great as long as you eat it from a jar labeled "foie gras".

>> No.12285280
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>>12285199
ANGLOID COPE
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>> No.12285282

>>12284404
no

>> No.12285289

>>12285280
The two in the middle are quite spectacularly bad, but I still lose the hardest on Maisie. Why?

>> No.12285293

Anglo women age worse than dogs.

>> No.12285298

>>12284404
She looks like a witch you'd stumble across lost in the forest who'd make you eat out her hairy pussy in exchange for telling you the way out

>> No.12285303

>>12285298
>witch who'd make you eat out her hairy pussy
w-what fairy tale is that from

>> No.12285304
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>> No.12285307

>>12285303
my dairy desu

>> No.12285311

>>12285279
No anon, some people just don't like caviar. Nobody sane enjoys eating shit

>> No.12285314

>>12284430
>calls out the eternal jew and hun in the same diary entry
Absolutely based. She is my new favourite woman writer.

>> No.12285389

>>12285314
Who was your previous favourite woman writer?

>> No.12285390

>>12285389
Evelyn Waugh

>> No.12285393

>>12285389
I don't know. Maybe Mary Shelley or Louisa Alcott. I'm only joking.

>> No.12286386

I liked Mrs Dalloway

>> No.12286462

>>12285390
lol

>> No.12286892

>>12286386
It's good anon. It was my first Woolf, I was 18 and I borrowed it from the public library with a few other books

>> No.12286917

>>12284430
Woah. Based.

>> No.12286923

more than likely

>> No.12287077

>>12284430

yaas slayyy girl

>> No.12287113

Yes, but I have bipolar disorder like she allegedly did so I'm biased. I both admire her and sympathize with her.

>> No.12287123

>>12284447
kek

>> No.12287151

>>12284420
>i can tell weather this is ironic
STATE OF THIS BOARD

>> No.12287175

>>12284600
you can still like her. Pirandello was a dirty fascist but he wrote some good books

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>>12284430
>another Bloomsbury is outed as an over-privileged bigot who embraces progressive ideas only in the abstract

colour me surprised

>> No.12287470

>>12284430
BASED

>> No.12287548

what, other than Waves, Orlando, TTL, and Dalloway (in order of greatness), is worth a read?

>>12284430
spill dat tea sis

>> No.12287565

>>12284430
I'm gonna go read Mrs. Dalloway now

>> No.12287637

>>12284430
This makes me want to be German so bad

>> No.12287743
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Sylvia Plath hated them. Excerpt from the Bell Jar

>The last time I was in the psych ward the negro attendant served us green string beans, macaroni, and baked beans.

>Now I knew perfectly well you didn’t serve two kinds of beans together at a meal. Beans and carrots, or beans and peas, maybe, but never beans and beans. The Negro was just trying to see how much we would take.

>I ate as much as I could of the baked beans. Then I rose from the table, passing round to the side where the nurse couldn’t see me below the waist, and behind the Negro, who was clearing the dirty plates. I drew my foot back and gave him a sharp, hard kick on the calf of the leg.

>The Negro leapt away with a yelp and rolled his eyes at me. “Oh Miz, oh Miz,” he moaned, rubbing his leg. “You shouldn’t of done that, you shouldn’t, you reely shouldn’t.”

>“That’s what you get,” I said, and stared him in the eye.

>> No.12287804

>>12284404
I do feel like I need to wolf down more Woolf. I'm just ashamed to admit I find it kinda boring. Like it's captivating prose but I feel that nothing happens.

>> No.12287811

>>12284430
These are just normal Victorian/Edwardian era Anglo attitudes. Nothing particularly idiosyncratic about her beliefs here.

>> No.12287813

>>12287811
theyre still normal anglo attitudes

>> No.12288196

>>12287548
A Room of One's Own is worth reading. More self-identifying feminists should read it too

>> No.12288549

Who would win a debate about feminism between Jordan Peterson and Virginia Woolf?

>> No.12288597

>>12287743
Imagine being this autistic.

>> No.12288624

>>12288597
She's right though, beans and beans deserves a kick to the shins
>That's what you get.

>> No.12289027

>>12287548

Orlando doesn't belong on this list, some well-written parts but nothing like as ground-breaking as the other 3.

>> No.12289079

>>12287743
>The Negro was just trying to see how much we would take.
>“That’s what you get,” I said, and stared him in the eye.
Top comedy.

>> No.12289416

>>12287743
>and stared him in the eye.

Oh, please

>> No.12290175

>>12284430
>Kensington High St. revolts one's stomach with its innumerable "women of incredible mediocrity, drab as dishwater"
>"women of incredible mediocrity, drab as dishwater"

Nice one, Punchy.

>> No.12290208

>>12287743
>tfw /b/ is just what it's like to be a woman

>> No.12290214

>>12288549
Peterson because Woolf is dead

>> No.12290228

>>12284430
Sorry sweetums German philosophy, music, and math WHUPPED Anglo everything in the 20th century

>> No.12290275

>>12290228
How'd ye get on with those 20th century wars there, Hans.

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>>12290275
Pretty good, Sir Snaggletooth.

>> No.12290339

>>12290299
Jokes on you, I'm Australian. Don't get mad

>> No.12290351

>>12288196
i didn't like it. no style and commonplace arguments of no real value.

i forgot to put in on that list (probably before Dalloway, which is trash), "On Illness", which has some of her most baroque sentences although peters out in the end, quite literally.

>>12289027
t. pleb
Orlando is the culmination of her experiments with consciousness and time.

Are her short stories any good? I think I'll try Between the Acts next or Jacob's Room.