Book Reading Session: Works of Virginia Woolf

“Books do not get jealous if you read other books”- Anonymous

Reading book is both a custom and an aesthetic. It links us to human fate and predicament, of what happened in the Classical Antiquity to as much as those of the modern era, and whatever came between the two. It is in reading, that one becomes one with the people presented. The representatives of the ‘Book Reading Session’ in support of The Bhawanipur Education Society College called for one: on the famous writer of the modern era, Virginia Woolf. 

A proponent writer of modernism who steered the course of modernist themes of writing is widely hailed for psychoanalytic readings of her popular works. The one-hour session, scheduled from 10.30 am, took place at the BESC library, Knowledge Resource Centre. Dr. Vasundhara Mishra and Ms. Samiksha Khanduri were the faculties present. Their presence was markedly inspirational. Prof Dilip Shah, The Dean of Student Affairs, graced the occasion by coming over to the readers and acknowledging the influence of these sessions. He shared his insight, that “books are supposed to be read to understand characters” and Woolf “is remembered and revered till date.”

Dr. Vasundhara started off by delivering an impelling note on the life and losses of Woolf. She proposed facts and feelings, which were to be equated with the existence of Virginia exclaiming that it is intriguing to unravel her inner voice, silence, experiences and dedication. “There is little space in the language, understand its gesture and read it cause it’s not that tough. It is an empathy towards original plays.” she expounded. 

Mr S M Fazal Karim, who happens to study Mathematics Honours and is one of the representatives of the Book Reading Session, spoke out on the initiation and the reception of it. One of the most important styles of writing ‘The Stream of Consciousness’, which is essentially what goes inside our head and is about the mind going back and forth, was specified by Ms Khanduri, who found it established in ‘Mrs Dalloway’. She pointed out that “there are no quotations in the entire text barring two three quotes wherein she actually quotes the person directly addressing someone and the entire narration is third person point of view. Mrs Dalloway is impressionable.” Namrata Choudhury, PG Sem1 student of English, explained the stream of