I had not thought much about Virginia Woolf and Simone deBeauvoir’s life writing until I decided to write a paper connecting their wartime diaries with those of writer Iris Origo.
I delivered my work, “Writing ‘as the mood comes’: Diaries as Dissident Feminist Practice During World War II for Virginia Woolf, Iris Origo, and Simone de Beauvoir” at the 34th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference in England in June.
How serendipitous, then, that the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey is presenting a free program connecting the two on Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. Turkey time or noon EST as part of the society’s new season of Woolf Seminars.
The talk by Luca Pinelli, is titled “Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, and the Materiality of Life/Writing” and will take place on Zoom.
The presentation will explore the compelling intersections between Woolf and de Beauvoir, examining how both writers engage with the tangible, embodied experience of life in their biographies, diaries, letters, and memoirs.
The talk proposes that their work transcends literary categories to interrogate the very texture of existence as perceived by human and occasionally nonhuman subjects.
You can register online. But hurry. Participation is limited to 100 slots.
