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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Part two is one of the most lovely pieces of writing ever imagined from Woolf.
Es impresionante lo que logra Woolf con esta novela sobre una familia que prepara una excursión al faro. En la primera mitad recorre la intimidad de cada personaje, alternando puntos de vista contradictorios en mitad de una escena, incluso de una misma frase. Llegas a conocer a fondo a cada uno de los personajes, con sus miserias, pensamientos inconfesables, ilusiones... Pero es que en la segunda mitad del libro la autora va más allá: ahí juega a mezclar espacios y tiempos, lo que recordamos, lo que inventamos, el material con el que creamos y con el que hacemos las paces con quienes ya no están ahí pero todavía sentimos. Quizás no sea su novela más ambiciosa, pero de las que he leído (Orlando, La señora Dalloway y Al faro) es la más conseguida y de lectura más gratificante. Un ejercicio estilístico y narrativo que también es disfrutable y emocionante.
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So, so dense. Perhaps worth a re-read later... I feel I missed quite a bit just plodding through Woolf's iron-thick prose.
Sometimes hard to follow the train of thought, but very poetic and lovely. I loved that Lily Briscoe was so stubborn and refused to give the men what they wanted. Beautiful book.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This convinced me I should give Mrs Dalloway a second shot.
This book could be very interesting to people who don't have an internal dialogue. Or those people who are always wondering what someone else is thinking. Neither of those things are true for me, so I found this book a bit boring and lacking in plot, despite being very well written and thoroughly exploring the nuances of the characters.
Generally considered Woolf's masterpiece. I am baffled. It compares unfavorably to The Waves, and doesn't hold a candle to Orlando. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey are of genuine interest, as with Minta and Paul, but I would have been happy to have never read a single word about the atrocious painter that takes up far too much of this book. The prose, in some places, approaches perfection, but, as with The Waves, the second half really doesn't hold up to the first.