VIRGINIA WOLF

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VIRGINIA WOLF

A MODERNIST NOVELIST

Main aim:to give voice to the complex inner world of feeling and memory. The human personality: a continuous shift of impressions and emotions. Narrator: disappearance of the omniscient narrator. Point of view: shifted inside the characters’ minds through flashbacks, associations of ideas, momentary impressions presented as a continuous flux.

LITERARY CAREER

A Room of One's Own (1929)

Orlando (1928)

To the Lighthouse (1927)

Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Jacob's room (1922)

Night and Day (1927)

The voyage out (1915)

LIFE

In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf. In 1915 she started her literary career as a talented novelist, essayist and critic. The Second World War increased her anxiety and fears. After rewriting drafts of her suicide note, she put rocks into her pockets and drowned herself in the River Ouse

In 1904 she moved to Bloomsbury and with her sister Vanessa Bell, she became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, the avant-garde of early 20th-century London

Her father Leslie Stephen was an eminent Victorian man of letters. She grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere with free access to her father’s library. Childhood experiences of death and sexual abuse led to depression.

stream of cosciousness vs. traditional technique

... corrisponds to real, chronological time. Narration, description, dialogue and commentary by the narrator.

The action of the plot moves back and forth through present time to memories of past events and dreams of the future. Dramatic monologue and free association.