Pockets burdened with stones... and a story not written yet

It includes pockets heavy with stones, an analytical study of Virginia Woolf's stylistics, one of the most important British novelists in modern literature. It also includes a translation of one of Woolf's novels in which the narrator imagines how a possible novel is built through the contemplation of a silent and sad woman sitting in front of her in a train carriage heading to the south of the English countryside, weaving around her events and expectations, and giving her a name: "Mini Marsh," then attributing to her a sin she committed in her youth that caused her visible sadness on her face. The book also contains an imagined dialogue with Woolf, conducted with her five decades after her death, in which her lovers and readers ask her questions about literature, politics, and life in Britain before, during, and after the two world wars. She responds, on Woolf's behalf, through a group of critics specialized in her literature and psychoanalysts who studied her illness that led her to commit suicide in 1941, that she filled her pockets with stones and sank into the depths of the Ouse River near her country house in Sussex, and drowned. Translation and introduction: Fatima Naoot