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Virginia Woolf's last novel, Between the Acts, shows in its way what it was in June 1939. The present then consisted not only of what was happening and what was then, but also of what had been in the long past since the prehistoric era. The history of England was there, and timeless nature as well. The lily pond in the novel engulfed human deeds and remained still unchanged. Woolf wove a remarkable tapestry of June 1939 with these various elements. It was rather difficult to make up the tapestry mostly with Woolfian "moments of being" which were in the realm of individual psychology. Here arose an impetus to going beyond the individuality into the realm of a sort of "the collective conscious." Though she did not write such an extraordinary work as Joyce's Fimegans Wake, Woolf was compelled to find her hope in the future of the collective English people at large. It seems to be much more important at that stage for an individual author or actor to be common than to be particular. The pageant in Between the Acts was played by common villagers rather than professional actors. There would be some possibility for the disharmonious tragic conditions of modern men to be harmonized by annihilating individuality and by getting into a common cause.
- 日本ヴァージニア・ウルフ協会の論文
- 1990-09-30
日本ヴァージニア・ウルフ協会 | 論文
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