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Susan Sellers

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Susan Sellers is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews

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Een mooi poëtisch boek over de zussen Vanessa en Virginia. Vanessa is de verteller en het boek is in de jij-vorm (waarbij 'jij' Virginia Woolf is). Het hele verhaal wordt redelijk beknopt beschreven. Veel aandacht voor kleuren en schilderkunst en emoties natuurlijk.
 
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elsmvst | 9 andre anmeldelser | Apr 20, 2020 |
I have always played with God. For me, the signifier Dieu, as I have always said, is the synonym of what goes beyond us, of our own projection towards the future, towards infinity.

White Ink is a collection of interviews culled from over 20 years. Despite the interest of my coworkers in the subtitle - Interviews on sex, text and politics - there is little reflection on the erotic or libidinal. Cixous has become nearly a necessity for me as of late. Her thoughts spiral and glisten. There is an abundance of strange poetry in these theoretical sorties. It is dreamish and incisingly cerebral. Shakespeare and Joyce are partitioned and ruminated upon. I revel in such.

Today was the Champions League Final in Berlin and it was an excellent match. It also marks the end of the football season as well as a forthcoming long hot summer of nervous twitching. Just after the final whistle, I read the text's penultimate exchange between Cixous and longtime counterpart Jacques Derrida. I nearly swooned: where's my hankie, I purred? Perhaps the season won't be as interminable as I feared.
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jonfaith | Feb 22, 2019 |
Beautiful written with deep insight in the lives of the two sisters. I so love the work of Woolf. But I get also the wish to look again and with fresh eyes at the paintings of Vanessa Bell.
 
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timswings | 9 andre anmeldelser | Aug 30, 2015 |
I have read a lot of Virginia Woolf, including some of her journals, letters, and a biography by her nephew, Quentin Bell. But I know almost nothing about her sister, the painter Vanessa Stephens Bell. After reading this wonderful, insightful novel of the relationship between the two sisters, told from the point of view of Vanessa, I now have a starting point for understanding them, the relationship, and the connection to Virginia’s work.

Normally, I am wary of this genre I call biographical fiction, but Susan Sellers has the credentials which made me want to read. She is a professor of English at St. Andrews University in Scotland and coeditor of the Cambridge University press editions of Virginia Woolf’s work. She has won the Canongate prize for New Writing and has authored many short stories and non-fiction books. As the jacket also says, this is her first novel.

At first, I found it a bit hard to know who was talking and who was listening, because Sellers does not use traditional attribution tags with dialogue. Then I began to notice clever clues in the text. For example, when she referred to “your writing,” or “my painting,” I was able to sail through the story. I also enjoyed some of the obscure references to Virginia’s works.

In the following passage, Vanessa has had one of many confrontations with her father. Sellers writes,

“‘Can you not imagine what it is like for me now? Have you no pity?’ It is bearing down on me, Father’s beak. I feel it ripping into my flesh, ravenous for sympathy. / Finally, I am released. I go out onto the landing bowed down by my failure. You are sitting on the bottom stair. I can tell from your expression that you have been listening to our exchange. Your eyes signal your compassion, your powerlessness to help. / “‘Damn him!’ I burst out. / I realize from the tapering light in your eyes that I have gone too far. You look away. You are only a partial accomplice. I sense from the set of your shoulders, a sudden movement of your arm, that though you acknowledge Father’s tyranny you love him still” (41).

Virginia Woolf is one of the most important feminist writers of the early 20th century. Her novels – To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and Mrs. Dalloway, represent some of the finest modernist novels. Reading Virginia Woolf requires a great deal of concentration, because time and place can easily slip slide away from consciousness.

Susan Heller’s Vanessa and Virginia presents an interesting twist on sibling rivalry which is only the beginning of the wonderful aspects of this novel. 5 stars

--Chiron, 5/5/13
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rmckeown | 9 andre anmeldelser | May 5, 2013 |

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