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Originally Posted by pynch
Virginia Woolf in a letter to John Lehmann about The Waves, which might also be applicable, at least partly, to the delights of To the Lighthouse:
“[...] a difficult attempt—I wanted to eliminate all detail; all fact; and analysis; and my self; and yet not be frigid and rhetorical; and not monotonous (which I am) and to keep the swiftness of prose and yet strike one or two sparks, and not write poetical, but purebred prose, and keep the elements of character; [...]”
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indeed
She does read a bit like Poe, in the sense that there's a lot of description of the characters psychological motives and reasoning. Scenes are not described visually much and still you have then all pretty much laid out and unfolded before your eyes a few paragraphs after much of a character's reasoning...