Pascale Seys and Carine Bratzlavsky celebrate the militant commitments of the author of “Vagues”, echoing his inner disorders. Feminism and anti-militarism are on the menu.
By Nicolas Crousse
Lhe Midis de la Poésie is publishing, at the end of this winter, an essay devoted to the immense Virginia Woolf. It is signed by Pascale Seys, philosopher, and Carine Bratzlavsky, who translates and coordinates an unpublished edition of Virginia Woolf’s correspondence with her sister Vanessa Bell (to be published, in early 2024, by Editions de la Table Ronde).
The authors paint the portrait of a woman inhabited by “black and hairy demons”, proclaiming herself at the age of 29, on the eve of the First World War, “still single, a failure, childless, demented in addition, not even a writer”. Yet it is through writing that she will undertake to (try to) heal herself. As war breaks out, she writes The Crossing of Appearancesand it is like a bulwark once morest the loss of self.
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