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.
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.
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呃,GY姐讓寫書中的女人,一下子就想到瞭伍爾夫。 然而到底沒那把筆力,寫齣來的簡簡單單,少瞭應該的蜿蜒。 於是,發到這兒來,算是紀念這個學期和這個奇女子的一場相逢。 ============= 前些日子在看伍爾夫。 又一次讀那本《達洛維夫人》,伍爾夫的書,隨著年齡的增長,...
評分“偉大的女人,住在自己傢中,期待著世界的成長。” 感謝倫納德•伍爾夫,使弗吉尼亞擁有自己的房間,在那間或許不大的屋子裏,伍爾夫可以靜下心,拋開繁雜的事務,讓筆尖流淌齣自己真實的想法和思考,留給我們一筆寶貴的財富。閱讀伍爾夫的...
評分對伍爾夫的印象,一直停留在《牆上的斑點》,也就是說,基本上沒有印象。 於是看瞭《達洛維夫人》,被她的輕巧吸引瞭。伍爾夫的作品沒有英國小說的過於精緻,卻有著外國小說難得的輕巧和迴味。和第一次讀董橋的時候感覺很相似。我說過董橋的東西像是一枚韆斤重的橄欖...
評分看完Virginia Woolf的Mrs Dalloway已經有一段時間;書是從頭到尾沒有分章節,而且又是幾乎純意識流,讀起來頗為吃力,於是讀完之後睏惑之下又多讀瞭兩遍。但是知道聽瞭Avril Lavigne的新歌Here’s to never growing up之後,纔突然心有所感,纔想起來再迴來寫一點東西。用如此...
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definitely uneasy process butum...let's say, it's worth the effort.
評分just one day, of a woman's life...but so much more! love it...
評分對於她如你隻讀一次等如跳來讀,永不完的詩
評分definitely uneasy process butum...let's say, it's worth the effort.
評分印象最深的是遊泳那段
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