New Delhi [India], Jan 25 (NT): Google, with its pink-black doodle on Thursday, celebrated the 136th birth anniversary of English author Virgina Woolf, one of the leading modernists of the twentieth century and a prominent in the use of stream of awareness as a narrative device.
"I see children running in the garden.The sound of the sea at night.Almost forty years of life, all built on that, permeated by that: so much I could never explain"- these childhood memories inspired the scenery and themes of English author Virginia Woolf's powerful stream-of-consciousness narratives, inscribe Google on its website.
Her exclusive literary style recognized Woolf as one of modern feminism's most influential voices.
Today’s Google-Doodle is Created by London-based illustrator Louise Pomeroy which celebrates Woolf's minimalist style - her iconic profile encircled by the falling autumn leaves, which has been a common visual theme in her work.
According to Woolf's expressions, "The autumn trees gleam in the yellow moonlight, in the light of harvest moons, the light which mellows the energy of labor, and smooths the stubble, and brings the wave lapping blue to the shore."
Woolf's lyrical inscription flourished on the introspection of her characters, enlightening the complex emotions underlying seemingly mundane events - how the ringing of the Big Ben evokes the passage of time in 'Mrs. Dalloway' (1925) or a family's visit to the coast hides deep-seated tensions in 'To the Lighthouse' (1927).
True-life works like 'A Room of One's Own' (1929) and 'Three Guineas' (1938) showcase Woolf's persistent feminist outlook by documenting the gendered intellectual stratification and resulting male-dominated control dynamics of the era. (NT)
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