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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
"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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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Here is where prose becomes art. The loss at the heart of this novel is profoundly revealed in this text. It's a wonder that so much can be conveyed with mere words on a page. Majestic stuff.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
It's Virginia Woolf - if you like her thought provoking, harsh style, you'll love this. She is a wonderful author who lets her true struggles with ordinary life come through in a truly beautiful and poetic nature. I'm bias though - I love her stuff.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I hate to admit that, although I tried and tried, I couldn't get through it.
It's supposed to be great, though.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Really trippy for the 50's. Kind of Naked Lunch and Dickinson. Hard to follow I read it simultaniously with a cliffnotes.
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I tried to get through this book, read a few chapters on a plane ride and couldn't handle the stream of consciousness style. I couldn't tell which character's head I was in! Not my style I guess.
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Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life.
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From the publisher.....Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest work of fiction, Mrs. Dalloway is not only detailed rendering of a vivid human life, it is the outline on paper of human consciousness.
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Found it difficult to keep my interest, and to care about the characters. Actually did not finish the book, life is too short.
The novel that inspired "The Hours". Hopefully this book will garner new fans for Virginia Woolf.
This book is currently being discussed by the readers of the New York Times Book Review. The book covers one day in the life of a woman preparing an important party. But her thoughts range from the past, through the present to visions the future.
The portrait of a single day in a woman's life in pre-World War London, it's the novel that inspired the book and movie, The Hours.
A Woolf classic. Again, I came to this book from a film, The Hours. All the action takes place in one day while Clarissa Dalloway prepares for and hosts a party. Woolf is the best.
At first it was hard for me to get the flow but once I did I loved this story very much!
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