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Frabjous Day
  • Rated 5 stars

When Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself, she set in motion a strange and perturbing day, and a stunning novel.
"...in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June," says the author of her protagonist early on, and it sets the tone for a novel that consistently and brilliantly grapples with the intangible nothings of which lives are constructed. Woolf called her novel The...

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Shawna B
  • Rated 2 stars

I really wanted to like this book. I have a hard time with Woolfs writing, I kept reading the same line over and over, then going back to re-read and discovering it was not me reading it over and over, just Woolf repeating herself, if she would have taken out the repeating lines the book would have been half the length. It is also hard to figure out who head you are in, you think Clarissa is talking but then she is thinking about the Far East, and after a paragraph or so you realize that it...

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  • treal

    treal said:

    Mrs. Dalloway has been called Virginia Woolf’s response to James Joyce Ulysses. They both take place on a single day, as well as utilize multiple perspectives via inner dialogue (or stream of consciousness) to carry their respective themes. And while Joyce uses three main characters to convey this inner dialogue, Woolf chooses to use well over a dozen unique protagonists to convey this story. And it should be noted that all these characters are connected, directly or indirectly, to the title character and her plans to create the perfect party.

    Due to its heavy handling of lofty themes such as feminine suppression, imperialism, and mental illness (something the author could really well verify), the book is far less humorous than the aforementioned Ulysses. It is also at times a difficult book to read due to the author’s use of time, narrative perspective, and conflicting points of view. Several passages need to be reread to fully understand, and appreciate, the greater universe that is contained in Mrs. Dalloway. And while the journey may be arduous, the reader is left with the greater satisfaction of just finishing a unique 20th century classic.

    posted Sunday, April 6 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • Biborka B

    biborka b said:

    It's absolutely beautiful the way the perspective changes, how we get to know every person who Mrs Dalloway meets or doesn't. The technique of turning onto the other's view is very cinematographic, one of the best modernist ones.

    posted Wednesday, January 2 2008
  • avidreader

    avidreader said:

    can someone share me an ebook of this. tnx

    posted Saturday, December 8 2007 ( | view 1 reply )
  • GeofChaucer

    geofchaucer said:

    I had to work diligently to finish this. It was challenging to pick the book back up and figure out what the heck was going on. I enjoyed it, but I don't know if I'll read it again any time soon...

    posted Tuesday, July 10 2007
  • elorzaricardo

    elorzaricardo said:

    HA! I hate this book , can't think of another more globalized piece of art work. Transportation sucks!

    posted Tuesday, July 10 2007

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