Virginia Woolf
Hardcover | Pages: 194 pages Rating: 3.79 | 208397 Users | 8995 Reviews
Point Containing Books Mrs. Dalloway
| Title | : | Mrs. Dalloway |
| Author | : | Virginia Woolf |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 194 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published May 14th 1925) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Adventure. Fiction. Action |
Commentary During Books Mrs. Dalloway
Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party preparation while in her mind she is something much more than a perfect society hostess. As she readies her house, she is flooded with remembrances of faraway times. And, met with the realities of the present, Clarissa reexamines the choices that brought her there, hesitantly looking ahead to the unfamiliar work of growing old. "Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If the novel before Mrs. Dalloway aspired to immensities of scope and scale, to heroic journeys across vast landscapes, with Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf insisted that it could also locate the enormous within the everyday; that a life of errands and party-giving was every bit as viable a subject as any life lived anywhere; and that should any human act in any novel seem unimportant, it has merely been inadequately observed. The novel as an art form has not been the same since. "Mrs. Dalloway also contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century." --Michael Cunningham, author of The HoursPresent Books As Mrs. Dalloway
| Original Title: | Mrs. Dalloway |
| ISBN: | 0151009988 (ISBN13: 9780151009985) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, Peter Walsh, Sally Seton |
| Setting: | London, England |
Rating Containing Books Mrs. Dalloway
Ratings: 3.79 From 208397 Users | 8995 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf I hate you. There I said it. Some authors you just dont get on with, and Woolf is right down the bottom of my shit list. Ive got quite a few reasons why:Artistic slayingSo theres a trend with each and every new artistic movement which involves pissing all over the one that came before it. The newness asserts its dominance by destroying the old; its happened many times over history in all forms of artifice, whether it be literature, music, paintings or media in todays society. TheVirginia Woolf set out to write an unconventional novel and succeeded, although since she wrote, we have read so many unconventional novels that it seems tame. In her introduction to the edition I read, Maureen Howard writes: If ever there was a work conceived in response to the state of the novel, a consciously modern novel, it is Mrs. Dalloway. She may have been influenced by Ulysses because all the action occurs in one day. Church bells mark significant events. In turn this marking of the day
I was so afraid I wouldn't "get" this book (as if anyone fully "gets" Mrs. Dalloway in one reading, lulz). But it's goooorgeous and I've been a self-defeating, self-denying fool. That is all.
Well I don't think I was quite ready for Virginia Woolf. It's my first novel by Woolf so I've finally broken my Virginia virginity. The writing is razor sharp, very witty in parts but mostly there's an energy to her writing it's slightly manic and I felt my mind racing through along with her thoughts. But did I enjoy this book? In parts. I found the pacing although the words were written beautifully a little too frenetic like she's throwing everything at you and hoping you keep up. I think this
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life.Our lives are an elaborate and exquisite collage of moments. Each moment beautiful and powerful on their own when reflected upon, turned about and examined to breath in the full nostalgia for each glorious moment gone by, yet it is the compendium of moments that truly form our history of individuality. Yet, what is an expression of individuality if it is not taken in relation to all the lives around us, as a moment in history, a drop in a multitude
Its been a while since I last read Mrs Dalloway. Id always had it down as her third best book, but falling a fair way short of The Waves and To the Lighthouse. Therefore I was surprised by just how much I loved and admired it this time round. Its probably her most popular novel because its more intimate, more personal and sprightly and warm than her other novels. Whats most brilliant about it is the easy fluid way she makes of each passing moment a ruffled reservoir of the inner life of her
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