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L’autofiction médicale dans l’oeuvre de Virginia Woolf
Medical auto-fiction in the works of Virginia Woolf

Author(s): Sylvie Bourgouin
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: water; colors; visions; bipolarity; over-activity; agnostic; medical trauma; purifying

Summary/Abstract: Virginia Woolf considered her health before beginning her work as a novelist but the medical trauma has not left. The writer feared pre bourgeois judgment of the physician. The writing was on the price of the threat of psychiatric sentence. Water is in her work the double occurrence of care, medical water, and water consumption. But water is also a symbol of spiritual cleansing when God does not console. Colors in the work of the novelist also have the medical aspect of delusions, hallucinations and illuminations. But the most modern of Virginia Woolf is the fierce battle between diseases, doctor and environment to safeguard its independence, autonomy, liberty, in harmonious balance of agnostic measurement.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 129-151
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: French