| Sumario: | The article focuses on the literary work of author Virginia Woolf. According to the author, Woolf's radicalism involves pacifism, her texts lacking closure must automatically be pacifist. Specifically, the pacifism in Woolf's narrative structures arises from the juxtaposition of physical violence appearing in the backdrop of her novels with indirect or "structural" violence, such as oppression, immediately depicted in the foreground. Through this juxtaposition Woolf implies the pacifist views that peace cannot occur until we replace the patriarchal institutions that perpetuate war, particularly through oppression of women, with a more egalitarian system.
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