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Rating:  - brilliant answer to Ulysses
I must admit, I shied away from Virginial Woolf for some time, mostly due to having read "A Room of One's Own" in college. While mildly interesting, it certainly does not tap into the genius that is Virginia Woolf. So I didn't expect much when I picked up "Mrs. Dalloway." But wow, what a book. It is a direct response to James Joyce's "Ulysses" (though a bit more accessible) and runs with the same stream of consciousness style and also takes place in the space of one day. Virginia Woolf illustrates her greatness in this book and I highly recommend it. People looking to read more of her should also try "To the Lighthouse." She was a very talented and creative woman who more than held her own against the great male minds of the time and continues to impress even years after her death.
Rating:  - heavy, tedious... relevant today?
Virginia Woolf, one of the supposedly "complex" writers of modern fiction remains forever a mystery to me. I came to this book after reading Michael Cunningham's, "The Hours," which I really loved, and then found Woolf's to be a real disappointment. I find it a challenge to follow Woolf's stream-of-consciousness prose and because her plots are rather mundane (about average people in fairly average circumstances) She bores me. I recognize the 'greatness' that is Virginia Woolf, and perhaps others would think me a philistine because I cannot wax eloquent about her ability to capture whatever it is about people that reviewers find so captivating. Perhaps I find that I simply can't identify with any of the characters in her books and therefore have a hard time getting excited about what they are thinking and feeling, let alone doing. Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa, is presented in this book as the protagonist in the description of one day (in her life). The secondary characters, her husband, her sister and nieces and nephews, an old flame, and a horribly mad young man and his confused wife, are of limited interest as well. In any case, Woolf just is not for me... Perhaps she was all the rage in the 30s but she seems so out of touch and not at relevant to the world in which we live and exist today.
Rating: - Clarissa is you
I first read Mrs. Dalloway in 1961. Over the years I have re-read this classic novel more than a dozen times, always with intense pleasure. After her first two less successful attempts at fiction writing, Virginia Woolf surpises us here with a masterful display of her genius. There is barely a story, or a plot here. Even characterization is minimal. Yet the powerful description of the tumult in a human soul during the course of a single day leaves the reader begging for more. Woolf unlike Marcel Proust did not attempt to resurrect the past. Unlike Joyce, she did not try to push tbe use of the stream of consciousnes technique to its limits. Her technique is her own. It allows her to give her readers insightful glimpses into Clarisa's joys and fears, her constant expectation of ecstasy and awareness of the abysses that surround her. It is a masterpiece that should be enjoyed at the right time and when you are in the right mood.
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