There are birthday parties to plan, quarterly reports due, new books to read, new friends to make. We have not yet even begun to face the task of what we owe the dead, and we are nonetheless still faced with the question of what we owe the still living. The pandemic is now over except for those who’ve lost something, which is every one of us.Īnd yet, the work of living goes on-doggedly, at times obscenely. Those with compromised immune systems, for whom the vaccines don’t take. Those who lost jobs, lost homes, fell behind, fell out.
Restaurant workers who saw their colleagues decimated and now face entitled patrons who tip poorly. Healthcare workers, stunned and traumatized by what they’ve seen, and still processing late breaking waves and public indifference. The result is not only an essential volume for students and Woolf devotees but an incomparable gift to all lovers of literature.The pandemic is now over-except for those for whom it is not. Alongside her generous commentary, Emre offers hundreds of illustrations and little-seen photographs from Woolf's life. Dalloway, revealing the novel's artistry and astonishing originality. In this annotated volume based on the original British edition, acclaimed essayist and Oxford don Merve Emre mines Woolf's diaries and notes on writing to take us into the making of Mrs. A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centred on an upper-class Londoner preparing to give a party-is complicated by Woolf's satire of the English social system.įor decades, Woolf's rapturous style and vision of individual consciousness have challenged and inspired readers, novelists and scholars alike. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf's masterpiece.
Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." So begins Virginia Woolf's beloved fourth novel.
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