Name: The Waves
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9788490019283

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Maxtor

Collection

Maxtor Classics

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.00 x 11.50

ISBN13

9788490019283

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "The Waves"

"The sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from thesky, except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth hadwrinkles in it. Gradually as the sky whitened a dark line lay on thehorizon dividing the sea from the sky and the grey cloth became barred with thick strokes moving, one after another, beneath the surface,following each other, pursuing each other, perpetually..."

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's mostexperimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book'ssix characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers neverhear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies that span thecharacters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludesdetailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise tosunset.

As the six characters or "voices" speak Woolf explores concepts ofindividuality, self and community. Each character is distinct, yettogether they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness.

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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