Mrs Dalloway (Legend Classics)
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 192
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781915054944
- Utgivelsesår: 2022
- Bidragsyter: Woolf, Virginia
Mrs Dalloway is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as Mrs, symbolises her marital and social confinement. On the other, the readers meet Septimus Warren Smith, who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The lack of conventionally linear narrative and the stream of consciousness embedded in the text represents the author¿s take on the complexities of human existence and the ambiguity of reality. While Septimus appears mad as the war memories are haunting him, Clarissa is assumingly sane, with her existential troubles being centred around the midlife crisis ¿ both, however, share an astute sensibility about societal maladies of post-war Britain. Even though the two characters never meet, they are i