Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 - March 28, 1941) was a English author and feminist. Born Adeline Virginia Stephens in London she was brought up and educated at home. In 1895 following the death of her mother she had the first of numerous nervous breakdowns. Following the death of her father (Sir Leslie Stephen, a literary critic) in 1904, she moved with her sister and two brothers to a house in Bloomsbury. She began writing professionally in 1905, initially for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, a civil servant and political theorist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between the wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. In March 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse, near her Romdell residence. She had published ten novels and over 500 essays.
Clarissa Dalloway, a fashionable London hostess, is to give an important party. Through her thoughts on that day and through her memories of the past, her character is gradually revealed, and so are the other personalities who have touched on her life.
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Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most critical attention and are the most widely studied of Woolf's novels.
The action of Mrs. Dalloway takes place during a single day in June 1923 in London, England. This unusual organizational strategy creates a special problem for the novelist: how to craft characters deep enough to be realistic while treating only one day in their lives. Woolf solved this problem with what she called a "tunneling" technique, referring to the way her characters remember their pasts. In experiencing these characters' recollections, readers derive for themselves a sense of background and history to characters that, otherwise, a narrator would have had to provide.
In a sense, Mrs. Dalloway is a novel without a plot. Instead of creating major situations between characters to push the story forward, Woolf moved her narrative by following the passing hours of a day. The book is composed of movements from one character to another, or of movements from the internal thoughts of one character to the internal thoughts of another.
Mrs. Dalloway has been called a flâneur novel, which means it depicts people walking about a city. (Flâneur is the French word for a person who enjoys walking around a city often with no other purpose than to see the sights.) The book, as is typical of the Flâneur novel, makes the city, its parks, and its streets as interesting as the characters who inhabit them.
Clarissa Dalloway's party, which is the culminating event of the book, ties the narrative together by gathering the group of friends Clarissa thinks about throughout her day. It also concludes the secondary story of the book, the story of Septimus Warren Smith, by having Dr. Bradshaw arrive at the party and mention that one of his patients committed suicide that day.
The book's major competing themes are isolation and community, or the possibilities and limits of communicativeness, as evidenced by Clarissa's abiding sense of being alone and by her social skills, which bring people together at her parties.
呃,GY姐让写书中的女人,一下子就想到了伍尔夫。 然而到底没那把笔力,写出来的简简单单,少了应该的蜿蜒。 于是,发到这儿来,算是纪念这个学期和这个奇女子的一场相逢。 ============= 前些日子在看伍尔夫。 又一次读那本《达洛维夫人》,伍尔夫的书,随着年龄的增长,...
评分意识流小说真是让人又爱又恨。 爱的是,它对内心世界的探索与刻画如此深入细腻,透过这面镜子,我们可以看到故事背后更为广阔的现实世界;恨的是,它的叙事如此天马行空羚羊挂角,稍不留神就让你目眩神迷莫名其妙。 我曾四次尝试阅读《达洛维夫人》,都以失败告终,且每次都没...
评分 评分意识流小说真是让人又爱又恨。 爱的是,它对内心世界的探索与刻画如此深入细腻,透过这面镜子,我们可以看到故事背后更为广阔的现实世界;恨的是,它的叙事如此天马行空羚羊挂角,稍不留神就让你目眩神迷莫名其妙。 我曾四次尝试阅读《达洛维夫人》,都以失败告终,且每次都没...
评分对伍尔夫的印象,一直停留在《墙上的斑点》,也就是说,基本上没有印象。 于是看了《达洛维夫人》,被她的轻巧吸引了。伍尔夫的作品没有英国小说的过于精致,却有着外国小说难得的轻巧和回味。和第一次读董桥的时候感觉很相似。我说过董桥的东西像是一枚千斤重的橄榄...
Oh my favourite Virginia!! You officially become one of my top 3!
评分第一次去巴黎时在Shakespeare and the Company买的二手书 今年终于鼓起勇气读完了 岁月予我以耐心和理解力
评分Flashing and glaring.
评分第一次去巴黎时在Shakespeare and the Company买的二手书 今年终于鼓起勇气读完了 岁月予我以耐心和理解力
评分第一次去巴黎时在Shakespeare and the Company买的二手书 今年终于鼓起勇气读完了 岁月予我以耐心和理解力
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