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From BBC Radio 4:
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party.
Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in London. It was an anxious time; she lost several cousins in the conflict, and her brother-in-law Cecil Woolf died at the Front; in 1915 she suffered a mental breakdown.
For Woolf the war had chang ...more
From BBC Radio 4:
Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. Lives interweave on the streets of London as Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an important party.
Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in London. It was an anxious time; she lost several cousins in the conflict, and her brother-in-law Cecil Woolf died at the Front; in 1915 she suffered a mental breakdown.
For Woolf the war had chang ...more
The story (such as it is) was a little dull in itself, but the style is incredible. With no chapters and few section breaks, this is like the written version of a long take/tracking shot (like at the beginning of "The Player"). I kept having to go back and figure out how I got from one character's viewpoint to another's. Now I think I need to read "The Hours".
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Terrible.
My experience with each Virginia Woolf book I've read has been similar. The first 100 or so pages are rather slow going as I struggle to fall into rhythm with her style of narration. Then slowly but surely I become absorbed by her distinctive prose and the inner worlds of characters that she makes her readers become intimately knowledegable of.
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Dianne
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