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Mrs. Dalloway
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen Howard.
"Mrs. Dalloway was the first novel to split the atom. If ... (show more)
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman’s life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party she is to give that evening, Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more. For it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable. Foreword by Maureen Howard.
"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 Hours
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I found this book dull and hard to read. I understand about stream of consciousness, but that doesn't mean I have to like it!!!!
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I thought (once you get your head around the fact sentences run on for around a paragraph!) the stream of conciousness style was incredibly effective and made the whole novel colourful and incisive. I think its written very naturally, and the depth of characterisation was particularly interesting...
Was a good book for me as a gateway to more Woolf anyway... Definately want to try some more!Already read
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read this and then see the film, "the hours," for a modern interpretation ...
probably the most effective book-to-book-to-film adaptation ever.
also, read "the hours," by michael cunningham. it's the book i should have written.Already read
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