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    Introduction ‘When another novelist, mold Bennet, was reviewing To te Ligh, he urnmasied i like this: A group of people plan tos na smal boat the end some of them reach the lighthouse ina small boat. That isthe externality of the plo (Coming Standard 23 June 1928) He was deliberately drawing attention tothe unimportance ofthe plots ‘externality’. The events Woolf deserbes are, in themeelves, the impression that chey make on the aracter, commenting. on. their actions through the citferens, often contradictory impressions which ther people have of them. Thislack of fxed all-knowing viewpoint is In this intredusion, I want to show why Woolf should have beens dsstisied with the fiction ofer time, and what welearn, through her atc, diaries and lter, about what she wanted to putin is place Itisimportant that we do not see her as an isolated {individual but as someone who had very dose links with other sists and intellectuals of her time. Throvgh loking at the text of ‘he nove sel, at Woolf's atempt to represent the workingsaf the mind, we shall see how, in practice, she carried out the teprevestation of what was tober the most agile, dangerous, and exciting of processes: if isl. The literary context ‘When sie looked around her in the 1920s, Virginia Woolf was

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