The Waves - Couverture rigide

Virginia Woolf

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ISBN 10 : 812480186X ISBN 13 : 9788124801864

Editeur : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors

Synopsis

The Waves is Virginia Woolf’s most experimental novel, told entirely through the inner monologues of six characters whose lives unfold like the rise and fall of waves.

It is an innovative modernist novel in which Virginia Woolf abandons traditional plot and dialogue, instead presenting the story through a series of lyrical soliloquies spoken by six characters—Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Their voices appear in rhythmic, poetic sequences that trace their lives from childhood to old age, exploring how identity forms and shifts over time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 812480186X
• ISBN 13: 9788124801864
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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