The Waves

Author:   Virginia Woolf
Publisher:   Martino Fine Books
ISBN:  

9781614274544


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   17 July 2013
Format:   Paperback
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2013 Reprint of 1931 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The soliloquies that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. As the six characters or voices alternately speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self, and community. Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness. The novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. Woolf's novel is concerned with the individual consciousness and the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together. The difficulty of assigning genre to this novel is complicated by the fact that The Waves blurs distinctions between prose and poetry, allowing the novel to flow between six not dissimilar interior monologues. The book similarly breaks down boundaries between people, and Woolf herself wrote in her Diary that the six were not meant to be separate characters at all, but rather facets of consciousness illuminating a sense of continuity.

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Author:   Virginia Woolf
Publisher:   Martino Fine Books
Imprint:   Martino Fine Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9781614274544


ISBN 10:   1614274541
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   17 July 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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