The Crowded Dance of Modern Life
by Virginia Woolf
Woolf was like many writers of the early 20th century, such as Joyce or Proust, who were interested in the word “modern”. The traditions of the 19th century had been broken and the modern world was going to be governed by new things, particularly by technology. And it was going to be a predominantly urban, democratic world, dominated by the media. A writer like Woolf was both excited and worried by this.
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