Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
£
April 25th, 2011 by Lila
This is an extraordinary novel which has of late lost appeal for general reading audiences due to its daunting canonical status as a novel of modernist experimentation. Yet I really believe that this book deserves to be read for pleasure, and not just studied to be ‘understood’ and analysed. It’s a beautiful novel filled with lyrical descriptions of London in the early 20th century, an exploration of a shell-shocked mind, and a poetic exercise of psychological subjectivity, all infused with Woolf’s progressive views on society. Highly Recommended.
