“Mrs. Dalloway” Virginia Woolf (1925) Review | Stream of consciousness

★★★★★ 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


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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.

🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Mrs. Dalloway: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf (Wordsworth Classics)

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
La signora Dalloway (Italiano)