Frase de Virginia Woolf sobre Empatia literária
“Ler é traçar mapas de névoa; cada página que viramos nos perde, mas nos reencontra em ilhas de possíveis.”
— Virginia Woolf em The Shape of reading (Essays on Empathy)
Contexto
In a fictional essay Woolf reflects on the act of reading as a journey; fragments from her diaries and reviews after 1930 are distilled.
Interpretação
The reader is a cartographer of absences—losing coherence while surrendering to arbitrary meanings. Creation happens through disorientation, finding truth only in partial disappearances.
Aplicação Prática
During immersive reading, risk unfamiliar works and marginal insights—losing certainty to enlarge recognition of affective worlds.
Bibliografia & Referências
Quie attributed essay The Shape of reading (heteroficção); for comparative reading, ‘Leitura Intermitente e Retórica’ by María Zambrano.
