Virginia Woolf A Sketch Of The Past Pdf [patched] -

: Woolf argues that many memoirs fail because they omit "the person to whom things happened". She uses "scene-making" to preserve past sensations—like the sound of waves at St. Ives—which she feels are more real than her present reality.

She writes: “Why is there not a discovery of a means by which the past could be presented as it was? Why should it be so difficult to give a true account of one’s life?” virginia woolf a sketch of the past pdf