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Virginia Woolf without the stream of consciousness...well there were a couple of pages toward the end.
Many reviewers see this as a book about feminism or lesbianism. I saw, instead, a story about the struggle we each wage to embrace our dual natures and individually discover who we are meant to be. Sounds kind of heavy but Woolf makes the journey entertaining and often comical.
While this is not the stream of consciousness fare we find in others of Woolf's work, it is definitely her style...page- ...more
Many reviewers see this as a book about feminism or lesbianism. I saw, instead, a story about the struggle we each wage to embrace our dual natures and individually discover who we are meant to be. Sounds kind of heavy but Woolf makes the journey entertaining and often comical.
While this is not the stream of consciousness fare we find in others of Woolf's work, it is definitely her style...page- ...more
A Christmas gift from dear friend U. aka T.A. Thanks a lot!!!
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
Page 12 - Preface
Many friends have helped me in writing this book. Some are dead and so illustrious that I scarcely dare name them, yet no one can read or write without being perpetually in the debt of Defoe, Sir Thomas Browne, Sterne, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Macaulay, Emily Bronte, De Quincey, and Walter Pater — to name the first that come to mind. Others are alive, and though perhaps as illustrious in their own way, are less formidabl ...more
This is the fourth work I have read by Woolf, and although she is not one of my favorite authors, I do appreciate what she has to say. I found so many sections humorous, especially when she discusses gender roles. Woolf also interjects historical, political and economic ideas into the mix. I know that I am not describing this book very well, because it was so dreamlike. As with all of the Woolf books I have read so far, I will need to read it again.
Rating is from 2015& i would like 2 revisit..
I decided to power through this one, but it wasn't an easy task for me. Don't get me wrong, the story was interesting and the word choices were exquisite, but it was just not engaging. One of the things that bothered me was that it seems to be a satire on manners novels, but it also seems to hold deep currents of thought about identity and self - some sections are almost dharma in how she explores this proliferation of selves. But mostly it just seems to skate over the surface of a rich story an
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Virginia Woolf can do anything she wants, and she does. This book breaks all kinds of rules, and the fourth wall besides, and plays about among a half dozen different forms and genres. Not everything works, completely, but much does. She invents, or reinvents, a different kind of novel. Along the way, she writes more clearly and directly about feminism and identity than anyone else has, before or since-- a remarkable feat for 1928. This book gobsmacked me, over and over, with its brilliance. It
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