Title: All the Lives We Ever Lived Pdf Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf
Author: Katharine Smyth
Published Date: 2019-01-29
Page: 320
Nylon: "6 Great Books to Read This January"Town & Country: "The Best New Books to Read This January"Praise for All the Lives We Ever Lived:"Beautifully written...a gift to readers drawn to big questions about time, memory, mortality, love and grief... you'd be hard put to find a more moving appreciation of Woolf's work."— Heller McAlpin, Wall Street Journal"Blending analysis of a deeply literary novel with a personal story... gently entwining observations from Woolf's classic with her own layered experience. Smyth tells us of her loe for her father, his profound alcoholism and hte unpredictable course of the cancer that ultimately claimed his life."— TIME"This gorgeous, moving book gracefully moves between memoir and literary criticism.... Smyth’s writing possesses a unique ability to wend its way into your head, traveling into all the darkest corners of your mind, triggering thoughts on love and loss and family and memory you hadn’t known were lurking; it’s a profound experience, reading this book—one not to be missed."— Nylon “A conceptually ambitious and assured debut, successfully bridging memoir and literary criticism…. A work of incisive observation and analysis, exquisite writing, and an attempt to determine if there is 'any revelation that could lessen loss, that could help to make the fact of death okay.'”—Kirkus Reviews (starred)“All The Lives We Ever Lived is a lyrical memoir about Katharine Smyth's connection to Virginia Woolf's writing, and the power of literature in our darkest times.”—Bustle“I loved All the Lives We Ever Lived: its structural inventiveness, its fluid and lyrically beautiful writing—some lines made me gasp—and its often astonishing wisdom. But above all, this is a smart, moving portrait of a family in crisis; Smyth weaves literary criticism and biography into nearly every page, but she never strays from the deepest concerns of the human heart.”—Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon and I Want to Show You More“All the Lives We Ever Lived is a work of vivid intelligence—a sharp love letter to the reading and relationships that shape us, and an ingenious reply to the questions Woolf asked her readers to answer for themselves.”—Nell Stevens, author of Bleaker House and The Victorian and the Romantic“Modern American memoir doesn't get better—or more inventive—than this. By weaving the story of her father's death with a meditation on Virginia Woolf's great novel, Katharine Smyth has written a book that is both fiercely moving and full of bristling intelligence. All the Lives We Ever Lived isn't just a literary tour de force; it's an enlarging reminder of the evanescence of our lives. Smyth has twinned her sensibility with Woolf's to extraordinary effect. A wonderful debut.”—Darcy Frey, author of The Last Shot“A stunningly well-written, exquisitely intelligent and moving book, which deepens with each turn of the screw.”—Phillip Lopate, author of A Mother's Tale “In her brilliant debut, Katharine Smyth has done the impossible—invented a new form for the overworked genre of memoir, weaving Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse into her personal story as she absorbs the meaning of her beloved father’s long illness and early death. Her prose is luxuriant and supple, but never sentimental, and her piercing insights into the dynamics of the nuclear family often profound.”—Michael Scammell, author of Koestler and Solzhenitsyn“In channeling her experience of loss through her lifelong reading of Virginia Woolf, Smyth upends the rules of a genre and delivers a book at once deeply intellectual and deeply felt, heartbreaking, funny, illuminating, and truly new.” —Lea Carpenter, author of Eleven Days and Red, White, Blue“Losing then finding herself in To the Lighthouse, Katharine Smyth bestows time travel between Virginia Woolf's memory and her own, reminding us that a book can open the heart.” —Honor Moore, author of The Bishop's Daughter“In this remarkable memoir of familial love, illness, and grief, Katharine Smyth seamlessly braids her story around that of her literary idol, Virginia Woolf, and around that writer's most enduring characters. All the Lives We Ever Lived is enlightening and absolutely original, with writing that is gentle, elegant, and true.”—Marcia DeSanctis, author of 100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go Katharine Smyth is a graduate of Brown University. She has worked for The Paris Review and taught at Columbia University, where she received her MFA in nonfiction. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his death—a calamity that claimed her favorite person—she returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling with his memory and understanding her own grief.
Smyth’s story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf’s Cornish shores and Bloomsbury squares, exploring universal questions about family, loss, and homecoming. Through her inventive, highly personal reading of To the Lighthouse, and her artful adaptation of its groundbreaking structure, Smyth guides us toward a new vision of Woolf’s most demanding and rewarding novel—and crafts an elegant reminder of literature’s ability to clarify and console.
Braiding memoir, literary criticism, and biography, All the Lives We Ever Lived is a wholly original debut: a love letter from a daughter to her father, and from a reader to her most cherished author.
Smyth tells us much about Woolf and the impact of her life upon her In All the Lives we ever Lived Katharine Smyth tells about her own life and that of her family and compares it with the life and writings of Virginia Woolf whose writings and life impressed her greatly since she was young. She offers her insights into Woolf’s writings and how these insights aided her.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British writer who is most famous for her stream of consciousness novels. She suffered from mood swings, depression, manic excitements, and psychotic episodes. She committed suicide in 1941 by drowning.Among the many Woolf episodes that Smyth mentions is her collapse in 1904 which she suffered when her father died. Smyth was also attached to her father and describes her reactions.A Grief of One's Own Once again, expectations got in the way of my enjoying this one. I was hoping for some literary criticism, and there was some of that, but mostly All the Lives We Ever Lived was a memoir of Katharine Smyth's life with her father, who died of cancer at age 59. He was not a famous man, or a writer, but Smyth had been deeply affected by reading Virginia Woolf and found reassurance in returning to Woolf's writings, both her fiction and her essays and letters. I don't know if being a Virginia Woolf fan would make this a better read -- it strikes me as being almost like a novel in that you just have to read the first chapter or two to know whether you will find it your cup of tea. Very personal and melancholy.A memoir of significant interest and value Every once in a while, I wish I could do with my reviews as the judges do in ice skating competitions and split my “stars” between personal response and technical merit. Actually, I’m mentally doing so for “All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf” by Katharine Smyth. There would then be 5 stars for the memoir part, and 3 stars for the literary analysis part, for an average of 4 stars which I’m recording.Smyth uses reflections upon the works and life of Virginia Woolf throughout her personal narrative of her father’s battle with and eventual death from cancer (brought on, doubtless, by his alcoholism and tobacco addiction) to “universalize” her own feelings and reactions. Unfortunately, I have not read any of Woolf’s writing. I am not truly “literary”, nor am I “steeped in the classics”, either ancient or contemporary. Therefore I became thoroughly bogged down in Smyth’s frequent divergences into appropriate passages, especially analysis of “To the Lighthouse”. Actually, I was about to give up on this book until it occurred to me to skip over these sections, and stay with the main story. Voilà, from there on I was “into” the narrative.Actually, for Woolf aficionados or for those who enjoy literary analysis, I believe Katharine Smyth has accomplished a very significant work. For me, while disregarding the analogies from “Lighthouse” and Woolf’s own biography, I found that the reflections on the processes of grief and recovery were extremely apropos, and I could relate completely. Whether a reader likes the literary allusions or not, this is still a memoir of significant interest and value.
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