Virginia Woolf: The Waves (Landmarks of World Literature)

by Eric Warner

Eric Warner places The Waves in the context of Virginia Woolf's career and of the 'modern' age in which it was written. He examines how she came to write the novel, what her concerns were at the time, and how it is linked both in style and theme with her earlier, more accessible works. A final chapter explores the problematic relation of the book to the genre of the novel.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, Novels

128 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 1986

Reviews

[Bean · Rating 4 out of 5]

200+ pages of poetic prose, which was somehow both the biggest highlight and drawback …. , had some of the most insane writing I’ve ever read but I also felt like so much intensity was crammed onto every page that it sometimes felt waterlogged to me. By the end I was kind of craving some brevity and beige prose to lift it up a little. like the book version of eating some gorg choc ganache and then realizing you have the rest of the cake to finish, and also the chocolate cake has made you think about death a lot

[Syu Martirosyan · Rating 5 out of 5]

To call The Waves Woolf’s best work is to miss the point entirely. She invites us to a journey where the complexity of things becomes closer, only to dissolve the certainties that once lit our way ~

Wherever she goes, things are changed under her eyes; and yet when she has gone is not the thing the same again?

[goblin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd suck her d is all I'm sayin

[Mélodie]

Saw it on tiktok as "modern classic books that are actually good" but i'm sorry i don't understand hahahaha. I literally read 4 pages of it and didn't understand what was going on. First of all i read it in english and the language is too difficult for me to understand, it required way too much concentration. I want to read for fun not to have a fucking headache. Also, it was too abstract for me to grasp anything that was happening. Maybe if i come across the french version i will read it but definitely not in english (or in a few years)

[Levon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful; a prose that is dense yet at the same time hollow, bitter yet at the same time sweet. Makes my brain tingle in ways it hasn’t done so before. Makes me want to light a candle and watch it burn until the wick melts with the wax.

Note: listen to Wave by Patti Smith

[Francielly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Szavam nincsen rá, csak szívem..

[Sara Bianco Muss · Rating 4 out of 5]

Man skal holde tungen lige i munden men det er det hele værd