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Rooms of Memory: “A Sketch of the Past” At the beginning of “A Sketch of the Past,” the main piece in the collec-tion of autobiographical writings published as Moments of Being in 1976, then again in extended form in 1985, Woolf wonders whether it is possible for “things we have felt with great intensity” to “have an existence inde-
12 de dez. de 2009 · While “A Sketch of the Past” does seem to be an exercise in writing personally about ones life, I tend to be of the mind that it meant to be published because of the honesty and sincerity with which she set about her task. Unfinished as it may have been, Woolf has a direct purpose with writing this work and it is such:
ON BODY AND MEMORY IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S “A SKETCH . OF THE PAST” Ana Carolina de Carvalho Mesquita. 1* 1. Independent Researcher, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. Abstract. This article examines the deadlocks foregrounded in recreating and reconstituting memory in Virginia Woolf’s “A Sketch of the Past” from . the body’s perspective.
11 de ago. de 2022 · This fragment of Sketch of the Past is the only known draft portion of a typescript housed in the British Library, and even the short glimpse into Woolf’s artistic practice establishes how much attention she gave to the style of a memoir that she was supposedly writing on the spur of the moment.
8 de mar. de 2016 · Excerpt from “A Sketch of the Past” (I) – Virginia Woolf So without stopping to choose my way, in the sure and certain knowledge that it will find itself–or if not it will not matter — I begin: the first memory.
"A Sketch of the Past" also shows that Woolf continued to think closely about the relationship between writing and memory. The narrative of her recollections is frequently interrupted by digressions on her writing process, her ability or inability to remember people and events, and her analysis of the act of memoir writing.
