The Waves

The Waves
Автор
 
Год
 
Страниц
 
192
ISBN
 
9781840224108
Издатель
 
Wordsworth Classics
Категория
 
Woolf, Virginia

Содержание:

Sweet Bird of Youth, The Rose Tattoo, The Night of the Iguana

Описание:

"I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot", Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, "The Waves". Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature and the passage of time. Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The subsequent continuity of these six main characters, as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions, is interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature. In pure stream-of-consciousness style, Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives, each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy. "The Waves" is her searching exploration of individual and collective identity, and the observations and emotions of life, from the simplicity...

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