★★★★★ 外側ではお上品な行動が起こりつつも、頭の中ではものすごくたくさんのことが起こっている。一日の出来事としては無関係なのことが不思議なことに意識の中ではしっかりと絡み合っている。壊れる寸前のギリギリのところの意識の描写。
★★★★★ In the room, nothing seems to be happening but in their heads their worlds are turning. Things that happen in the day seem like unrelated but they are within their consciousness. Story about her mind ready to explode.
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🔽 基本情報 🔽
Mrs. Dalloway 
Virginia Woolf, 1925
ダロウェイ夫人
ヴァージニア・ウルフ
240 pages
2024.10 読了

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初のヴァージニア・ウルフ。

確かに簡単な本ではない。
一日の出来事だけを追うんだけど、外側ではイギリスらしいお上品な行動が起こりつつも、主人公を含め彼らの頭の中ではものすごくたくさんのことが起こっている。
本当は何を考えているのか、何を思い出しているのか。
「意識の流れ」というやつだそうですべてが内面に向かっていて、流れは止まらない。

(ちょっとネタバレです。100年前の小説なのでもう知られているとは思いますが)
主人公クラリッサはギリギリの精神状態、自分の義務と希望の間でもなんとか一日を過ごそうとする。
一方、知人セプティムスは、別のところでついに精神をやられてしまうが、そのことがクラリッサにも影響を及ぼす。
遠くで起こっている死、その死へと向かう彼の道のり。
その日の一日の出来事としては全くもって無関係なのに、不思議なことに意識の中ではしっかりと絡み合っている。
そのギリギリのところの意識の描写がすごい。

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★★★★★ In the room, nothing seems to be happening but in their heads their worlds are turning. Things that happen in the day seem like unrelated but they are within their consciousness. Story about her mind ready to explode.

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Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf, 1925
240 pages
Read 2024.10


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
My first ever Virginia Woolf.

As expected it was a hard read, in terms of the timeline it happens all in a day, but in the meantime the main characters think and remember a lot – ”Stream of Consciousness”.

It’s very internal, this is continuous flow of what they are really thinking while the time passes, and what they think is a lot more than what it appears in the very English society.

Nothing really happens in the day, but a lot happens in their heads.

(warning; revealing a bit of the plot, but I assume it’s well known after 100 years)
Clarissa is at the verge, she’s physically unwell but holds it together, very well aware of potential mistake of letting go the man she truly loved but also her duty as a wife. and Septimus, who had little to do with the party until his name is mentioned, had been at the verge and he eventually crosses the line.

By showing his death and his tension that was accumulated to the point of death, the book shows the nervous environment, or the consciousness of Clarissa, of what seems to be a boring, pretentious evening.
Definitely must read more of her books.

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La signora Dalloway (Italiano)