Nicholas ([info]nhw) wrote,
@ 2006-09-11 18:40:00
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September Books 8) Mrs Dalloway
8) Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf

This is very short, but very good. I was pleased (reading the intro to my Penguin edition after I'd read the book) that I spotted the influence of Joyce's Ulysses - but this is much less hard work. I always like the narrative technique of looking at the same events from different perspectives, especially when the author gets the unreliable narrator technique right. Based on this I will look out for more - to my shame, I don't think I had read any Woolf before.



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[info]communicator
2006-09-12 09:32 am UTC (link)
If you like Mrs Dalloway, you'll like Woolf. What a treat is ahead of you in reading her stuff. I recommend 'to the Lighthouse', which you can't fail to love I think. That's quite a strong statement but I'm pretty confident.

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