Article: AN EXHAUSTIVE LOOK AT VIRGINIA WOOLF.(COMMENTARY)(Review)

Byline: BERNICE GROHSKOPF

VIRGINIA WOOLF

HERMIONE LEE

Alfred A. Knopf. 893 pp. $39.95.

We may wonder if we need another biography of Virginia Woolf. Woolf herself believed that ``life stories need to be retold,'' and Hermione Lee, professor of English literature at the University of York in England, has produced, in her Virginia Woolf, a fuller exploration of one of the 20th century's great innovative novelists.

But Lee also has overloaded her biography, recording Woolf's every inhalation and exhalation, and the ``archival faintness'' Lee confesses to may overtake some readers.

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, ...

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