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virginiawoolf  ·  3463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Should Literature be "triggering"?

Thank you for your comment -- it's a valid perspective, definitely, because you mentioned how the media handles such content.

I wanted to add to my original comment that 'triggering' scenes or things that remind me of what happened don't help as much as does literature written by people who understand the loss. So, reading Woolf helps me, particularly a book like To the Lighthouse, that is about loss, and capturing, and turning into art, a section of her life. Similarly, as I am at odds to deal with loss, I like thinking about Georges Perec's experiments with capturing what was happening around him, because the Holocaust had destablized him, and he was forced to recognize the ephemeral nature of everything, including/especially the ordinary.