"How much sex did Virginia Woolf want? How much did she have? And what was the ratio between the two? The French writer and critic Viviane Forrester poses these as political, not prurient, questions. Her book, newly translated into English by Jody Gladding, won the Prix Goncourt de la biographie in 2009, four years before her death in 2013, aged eighty-seven."
From the TLS.
The TLS piece is interesting, and I suppose the book it discusses also has some interesting qualities; however, there are recently (in the last quarter century) very odd and unhelpful approaches to literary biography -- skewed by gender politics and other hot-button biases that have nothing to do with the writers' contributions to literature -- and I think this is another of those biographies, which means that I will easily avoid it, preferring instead to focus only on Woolf's writing. But, Jesse, thanks for alerting me to another one to avoid.
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