Frédérique Amselle. Virginia Woolf et les écritures du moi : le journal et l’autobiographie

Of the many, often tremendous, U-turns in literary theory and criticism since the infamous “death of the author”, the most challenging is perhaps the recent shift of focus from mainstream, finished, commercially successful works to memoirs, correspondence, first drafts and diaries. The result has not of course been a return to a pre-structuralist “life and times” approach to an artist and their work, but a focus on the various ways in which secondary or marginal writings can be seen to contri..