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Clarissa Dalloway is civilised--without the ostentation of a socialite, but with enough distinction to attract them to her parties. She finds excess offensive, but surrounds herself with the highest quality and has an abhorrence for anything ugly or awkward. Mrs. Dalloway is as much a character study as it is a commentary on the ills and benefits society gleans from class. Through Virginia Woolf, we spend a day with Clarissa as she interacts with servants, her children, her husband, and even an ex-lover. As she plans and executes one of her celebrated parties, she reveals inner machinations incongruous with her class-defined behaviors, that ultimately enable her to transcend them.
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As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.
Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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6 von 6 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
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Ich muss zugeben, dass ich das buch 2 Mal lesen musste um es richtig schätzen zu wissen. Der Erzähstil ist anders als alles andere und etwas schwer zu verstehen. Kein Erzähler nimmt einen bei der Hand und erklärt. Man muss schon selbst mitdenken und auf alles von alleine draufkommen. Das macht das Buch aber auch sehr spannend. Eins der wenigen Bücher die nach jedem Mal lesen besser wird. Wirklich alles versteht man wohl erst wenn man Virginia Woolfs essays gelesen hat.
Handlung? die ist ziemlich egal. es geht viel mehr darum was die charaktere denken, fühlen und planen. da es fast keien handlung gibt werden sich manche - die Woolfs Intentionen nicht verstehen - vermutlich langweilen.
Handlung? die ist ziemlich egal. es geht viel mehr darum was die charaktere denken, fühlen und planen. da es fast keien handlung gibt werden sich manche - die Woolfs Intentionen nicht verstehen - vermutlich langweilen.
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I guess I came to this book through the back door -- first I read Michael Cunningham's pulitzer prize winning book The Hours (based on Mrs. Dalloway) which I LOVED, and then I decided to read the original. First off, I must say that Cunningham impressed me even more when I fully understood the references and parallels that he uses. As for Mrs. Dalloway, it is the language itself that dazzles. The plot is nothing to speak of -- it's similar to a Jane Austen book when lots of interesting and not-so-interesting people interact in their mundane lives. It's what Woolf does with the subtle interactions and her stream of conscious writing that makes this book so good. Having read maybe 6 of Woolf's works, my favorite is still To the Lighthouse. Maybe that's because Mrs. Ramsey is so much more human -- Mrs. Dalloway is always described as distant and cold. This book is a love story of sorts about how Clarissa turns down the true love of her life and instead marries a wealthy politician. Like Ulysses, the narrative jumps around the minds of various characters in their journey from morning in London when Clarissa goes to buy flours to the evening of her party. It is a bit difficult, but the language itself makes it worth the effort.
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I've read a few other works by Virginia Woolf and I am always delighted by her prose. She has a wonderful way of going off on a tangent, stream-of-consciousness-like, and with one little phrase, bring the reader back to the real, physical world. She is highly creative as you will see in her novel Orlando and even makes a seemingly dry subject like "Women and Fiction" into something fun and interesting, as in A Room of One's Own. Mrs Dalloway, is the story of one single day leading up to the culminating event of a party in Mrs Dalloway's home that evening. We meet several people, some of whom have nothing to do with Mrs Dalloway, but are nonetheless important to the story. Each character has a very distinctive voice and manner of thinking. This is perhaps the most amazing thing about Mrs Dalloway and Virginia Woolf. Woolf is able to give each of her characters personality without losing her own on the way. It's a rather ordinary story about a day in an ordinary woman's life, but told by Woolf it becomes something quite extraordinary indeed. If you have read Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" without reading Mrs Dalloway, I would recommend reading it again after reading Woolf's novel. Both are wonderful works of art.
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Mrs.Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Frau muss ziemlich gut Englisch können, um dieses Buch in der Originalsprache lesen zu können. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 7 Monaten von Virginia Woolf veröffentlicht
About missed chances and the blooming life
"Mrs. Dalloway" is a melancholical story about a woman in her fifties. But because the story is combined with many thoughts and descriptions, it is not an easy read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 11 Monaten von laxschrift veröffentlicht
gute Reihe zur Vorbereitung
ich habe mir dieses Buch als Uni-Lektüre zur bevorstehenden Prüfung gekauft.
Folgendendes war für mich daher positiv:
- günstige Preis (und trotzdem... Lesen Sie weiter...
Folgendendes war für mich daher positiv:
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Vor 19 Monaten von itat veröffentlicht
Stylish Prose Gaudily Frames a Day-Long Character Study Emphasizing...
"Wealth makes many friends,
But the poor is separated from his friend." -- Proverbs 19:4 (NKJV)
Think of Mrs. Lesen Sie weiter...
But the poor is separated from his friend." -- Proverbs 19:4 (NKJV)
Think of Mrs. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von Donald Mitchell veröffentlicht
Auf jeden Fall mehrmals lesen
Nach der Oscarverleihung habe ich mich an Virginias Werken versucht. Mrs. Dalloway ist schwieriger zu verstehen als man geneigt wäre zu glauben, und der Grund dafür ist... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2003 von "herbpohl"
TIMESTEPS .......
NO DOUBT to reach cult-status with the new attention via "The Hours" this novel reflects the'ANGST-RIDDEN' psyche of early 20th [perhaps late 19th? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 31. Dezember 2002 veröffentlicht
Beautiful example of modernism
Touching characters and a beautiful narrative.
Am 3. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
Beautiful, Soaring, Poetic Prose
Virginia Woolf's finest literary achievement.
Veröffentlicht am 24. April 2000 von Ben
Ask not what the book can give to you. . .
Perhaps the helpful remarks I can add to those above is that this dense little book does demand a lot of its readers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. April 2000 von brassawe
probably my favorite book of all time
It captures the very essence of transcendence. It's a literary miracle.
Am 13. April 2000 veröffentlicht
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