The waves

The waves

1931 • 300 pages

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The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.

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Searching for meaning
through pointless repetition
distinguished by grief.

April 25, 2018

4.5* I stand corrected. Consider myself a Woolf fan. Third time is a charm, I guess (;

June 6, 2018
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