Why did I wait this long to read Woolf? The >female authors

>>8840725
why would you ever for a second believe a meme so clearly stupid

>>8840725
good job senpai. now you're ready to explore some other great lit without prejudice. look into:

flannery oconnor - everything rises must converge
ursula k leguin - left hand of dankness
willa cather - death comes for the archbishop
charlotte bronte - jane eyre
shirley jackson - haunting of hill house

to start.

>>8840725
>>8840735

and more

Kate Chopin - The Awakening
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
all of the brontes, austen, woolf, eliot
Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

>>8840729
I really like Plath for example, but Woolf is next level. I'm only a bit into this book but I think it's on the way to becoming a favourite.
>>8840735
Cheers lad :)

>>8840725
To be fair, Woolf is literally the top of the top when it comes to female authors. Eliot seems to be becoming a meme on here, but she's legitimately just as good in my opinion. O'Connor is good, Jane Austen is good. The rest are shit.

>>8840762
Marguerite Duras too

>>8840765
>comparing Plath and Woolf
"I like the Coen Brothers, but Picasso is next level"

>>8840853
>comparing Plath and the Coen Brothers
actually that might be pretty accurate

>>8840787
you're being a bit narrowminded desu. see >>8840735 and >>8840762

>>8840884
None of the four are in the same genre desu they're not really comparable

>>8840725
If that's your first Woolf you really must read To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway

>>8840916
I want to read everything that's like this one, which I'm assuming is To The Lighthouse and everything after it. Im keen to read the one from the perspective of a dog, sounds interesting.

The Waves > To the Lighthouse > Mrs Dalloway

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>Woman author
>Writes about kids

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>>8841296
>Male author
>Writes about abstract concepts and failed romance

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>>8841296
>Literature board
>Posts frogs

>>8841306
>abstract concepts
Yes, but
>failed romance
only whiny betas write about this stuff, no self respecting man would pine over it.

>>8840725
>Here's why, in addition to Roxane Gay, Bey and Lena Dunham, Virginia Woolf should be one of your feminist role models:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/virginia-woolf-feminist_n_6534258

>>8841347
>goethe
>dostoevsky
>shakespeare
>whiny betas
surely you jest anon.

>>8841355
Oh wow, that sure does invalidate her literary merit.

I've never seen anyone take a Huffington Post article so seriously before

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>>8841355

Does Mrs Dalloway even compete with this book, or is The Waves superior? I'm more interested in reading it over The Waves.

She saw sexuality -- and gender -- as fluid.

In a letter written around the same time as Three Guineas, Woolf not only acknowledges that gender-specific traits are socialized, but implies that gendered desires are often a source of violence. Such themes are explored thoroughly in her fiction, including her first novel, A Voyage Out, which mirrors her personal voyage from a more traditional upbringing to the intellectually stimulating Bloomsbury group she became a regular fixture of.

>>8840853
Coen Brothers are unironically better.

Film > art

>>8841481
Film is art.

>>8841493
Fucking autist.

Drawings, paintings etc.

>>8841470
>She saw sexuality -- and gender -- as fluid.
>In a letter written around the same time as Three Guineas, Woolf not only acknowledges that gender-specific traits are socialized, but implies that gendered desires are often a source of violence. Such themes are explored thoroughly in her fiction, including her first novel, A Voyage Out, which mirrors her personal voyage from a more traditional upbringing to the intellectually stimulating Bloomsbury group she became a regular fixture of.
Not to mention Orlando.

>>8841310
nice board

>>8840762
The Awakening is one of the only books I've ever started and not bothered to finish.