Writing Out of Time: A Look at the Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov

Authors

Andrea Stover, Belmont UniversityFollow

Abstract

My title is meant to suggest a paradox: We lose time with each word we write until eventually we will be out of time altogether, but we also create a sense of timelessness when we write, that exists out of and beyond time. So I guess writers are both running out and getting out of time. To get to the heart of this paradox, I’m organizing this talk around four impossible questions that I certainly won’t presume to answer. Instead, I’ll focus on the challenges these questions raise for writers, especially memoir writers.

Keywords

Humanities Symposium

Recommended Citation

Stover, Andrea (2014) "Writing Out of Time: A Look at the Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov," Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal: Vol. 5, Article 7.
Available at: https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium_journal/vol5/iss1/7