The events are told through six different characters,Bernard, Louis, Neville, Susan, Jinny and Rhoda, who know and interact with each other throughout their lives.my favourite out of the six was Bernard, who is thoughtful and humble, always telling stories, always trying to cheer up everyone else an...
This book isn't for me. I can appreciate that it is all about loss, grief, change, mortality, the self and how we navigate the world. I can also appreciate that the characters probably aren't strictly separate characters, but rather representations of different aspects of one person. I also apprecia...
I am spellbound by Woolf's powers of description; she lays out a feast of adjectives and metaphors, weaving a shimmering tapestry of words, here forming a continuous surface without break of tone. Exposition is forbidden to intrude on the musical flow of language and the 'six sided' inner voice carr...
“No, but I wish to go under; to visit the profound depths; once in a while to exercise my prerogative not always to act, but to explore; to hear vague, ancestral sounds of boughs creaking, of mammoths, to indulge impossible desires to embrace the whole world with the arms of understanding, impossibl...
موج ها، اولین کتابیست که از ویرجینیا وولف خواندم. تنها با خواندن 10 صفحه اول شیفته آن شدم. خیلی متاسفم که اینقدر دیر شروع به خواندن آثار این نویسنده کردم.اولین برخورد من با کتابهای ویرجینیا وولف، چندین سال پیش، توسط یکی از دوستانم، بنفشه ب (کارشناس ارشد حقوق بین الملل- طرفدار حقوق زن) بود، کتاب یادد...
Reading The Waves is like dreaming you are a telepath on a beach where families vacation. You start with a group of children, listening to their internal dialogue and remembering schooldays, teachers, crushes, play time. And then you move to high schoolers, and on to young adults. You hear of first ...
La lumière des étoiles tombait sur ma main comme elle tombe maintenant, après avoir voyagé des millions d'années j'en éprouvai un choc, un frisson, un instant - pas plus, j'ai trop peu d'imagination.
This is a difficult book, with it's non-linear narrative and interludes, many readers might be challenged if they're not used to this sort of thing. But it's a beautiful work, although for me, I began to lose ardor for it around half-way through. It's a book I intend to reread, however.But if you're...
First sentence: "The sun had not yet risen."P. 99: "'The breath of the wind was like a tiger panting', said Rhoda."Last sentence: "How many telephone calls, how many postcards, are now needed to cut this hole th"Plot Summary (Wikipedia): The Waves is Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists ...
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