Las olas como obra de arte. Algunos usos del ritmo y la composición.

Abstract

From the very beginning of her career as a novelist Virginia Woolf paid proper attention to the problems involved in the task of fiction writing; at the age of 45 she was still searching for the best definition of the novelist' s responsibilities. 'The Art of Ficton', her review of E.M. Forster' s Aspects of the Novel, elicited, through contrast, many of the ideas that she was going to put into practice in one of her future novels: The Waves. Different aspects of 'rhythm' and 'pattem' were carefully considered by Virginia Woolf in her review; a borre of contention, the possibility of representing 'life' through fiction, was discussed as well. In more than one way, Virginia Woolf' s ideas opposed those expressed by E.M. Forster in Aspects of the Novel, thus revealing sorne degree of tension between writers who are usually understood to share a common set of values. A number of the rhetoric devices critized by E.M. Forster were deliberately used to enhance 'pattem' and 'rhythm' in The Waves.