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It is difficult to critique the Waves; it is a text that is felt but only in an absolute way—invading the flow of the mind, emotions, and the deep course of existence. I read it a long time ago. It is still in my memory; it inhabits and enriches me. I resonate with the essence of what is delivered and discovered a form of perfection in ...
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Feb 3, 2019 · Review of ‘The Waves’ by Virginia Woolf. Reading this book is like eating a very rich dessert. One spoonful goes a long way. Every page is dense with imagery and ideas. It’s a masterpiece in under 200 pages. Not the most challenging Virginia Woolf novel I’ve read (that honour goes to Between the Acts or To the Lighthouse) but it still ...
Feb 27, 2019 · Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a difficult novel to comprehend rationally, and yet it is also a very moving novel that can take the reader from ecstasy to despair. This essay explores the epistemological value, if any, of such feelings.
- Angela Harris
- 2019
The Waves is Virginia Woolf's "play-poem", as she called it; a colloquy of six voices. It is about both continuity and difference, about both the instability and constancy of the self and of ...
- Amy Sackville
The boys in The Waves mention in passing the kinds of abuse, bullying, and hazing that were common in boarding and public schools throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, which have been investigated and widely discussed in recent decades. Later, as a young adult, Percival goes to (and dies in) India on what appears to be some sort of British imperialist project.
Dec 12, 2000 · 6. Louis Kronenberger, New York Times Book Review - 25 October 1931. ". . . the real reason why The Waves comes close, as a novel, to going out of bounds is that its true interests are those of poetry. Mrs Woolf has not only passed up superficial reality; she has also passed up psychological reality.
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Jun 15, 2022 · Over the years The Waves has remained one of Woolf’s lesser-known works, perhaps because it defies categorisation and lacks the narrative unity of novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Yes, it can seem difficult, but it is also extraordinarily beautiful, the writing complex and daring. There will be much to discuss during our ...
