%0 Journal Article
%T Death and contentment in Virginia Woolf¡¯s war novels
%A Leonardo Mendes
%J Revista e-scrita : Revista do Curso de Letras da UNIABEU
%D 2010
%I UNIABEU
%X One of the most striking characteristics of Virginia Woolf¡äs war novels ¨C Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927) ¨C is the confrontation of death and mortality in the fabric of everyday life (and of the narrative). Death and destruction ¨C set forth historically by World War I ¨C lurk in the background, but Woolf expands her fiction into a reflection on what it means to be mortal whose depth and beauty rival with Shakespeare and Montaigne. The thrust of these novels is to show the ways by which a mortal existence can be enough and this is a brief study of how Virginia Woolf manages to pull this off.
%K Virginia Woolf
%K death
%K modernism.
%U http://www.uniabeu.edu.br/publica/index.php/RE/article/view/42/pdf_27