Patti Smith - A Reading Of Virginia Woolf

for more informations about the exibition, where patti smith read this, visit: http://fondation.cartier.com/.
thats where i found the video, btw.

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• Patti
• Smith
• Virginia
• Woolf

[elisaloba]

Mrswoolff yes she is really hot, and listening this poetry i feel crazy, thanks revolucionary85 for sharing so beautiful vid!!!!

[revolutionary85]

my pleasure

[edgegreed]

Virginia Woolf has a novel called 'The Waves' and it's because of this, I'm guessing, that prompts her to call the evening 'Wave'. :)

This is so beautiful. I've always loved Virginia's work, but hearing it like this to music makes it... well, perfect.

[revolutionary85]

could not agree more.

[iriairia]

We are waiting to Virginia

Great Patti

[revolutionary85]

actualy, i think, she says "we are waving to virginia" ; )

[MrsWoolff]

Does anybody else think Patti Smith is really hot?

[SpaghettiWstrnGrl]

Now That's how you read literature! With emotion, passion. The words are pregnant and should sound like you are giving birth to them when you release them from your mouth. Patti Smith I LOVE YOU!

[Ellexorip]

wow!!! that was awesome. she resurrected that passage! she brought that passage to life so beautifully....i feel like i'm gonna die, lol >.<

[lemonyellow7]

@SpaghettiWstrnGrl brava!

[lemonyellow7]

@iriairia - adore.

[aeonosphere]

I love Virginia Woolf, an all around literary all-star. I look no further for literature which encapsulates life-- inner and exterior life as can be depicted and translated into words and sounds and pauses. None better than Virginia, to my mind, in the ouvre of a brilliant transcendent woman. Different, but none better. Patti Smith knows this and does a good job of gratifying us with a new take on our elder stateswoman. Loved this!

[MissClareCharlotte]

@HelloEarthFriends Yes, that's correct, but Patti is lifting other parts of The Waves and melding them into her own diction. Taking a train etc.

It would be interesting to have this kind of treatment given to other Woolf works, wouldn't it?

~C

[HelloEarthFriends]

beautiful reading of virginia woolf's the waves ... though most of it is patti's own work, i think. correct me if i'm wrong, but the only thing from the novel i can find is the part where she says, "Now, too, the time is coming when we shall leave school . . . (etc. etc) . . . one man will single me out and will tell me what he has told no other person" -- direct quote from the waves

[TheAlflee]

ORLANDO is the best book i ever read

[MissClareCharlotte]

Now that is truly an art-form.

Indescribably magnificent writing, a fitting musical accompaniment and a heart-felt reading... aside from in your mind, this is how you bring literature to vivid life.

Wonderful. Thank you for posting this.

[ccipollini1984]

This is how you read poetry with complete and total unminigated passion. Patti Smith makes me want to write more.