编辑推荐ReviewSimilar in style to another modernist work, James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the novel follows its six narrators from childhood through adulthood. While Joyce's novel could be considered a Bildungsroman, Woolf's novel is more concerned with the individual consciousness and the ways in which multiple consciousnesses can weave together. The Waves is different from a Bildungsroman in that the self may very well be considered to be its own society. The difficulty of assigning genre to this novel is complicated by the fact that The Waves obliterates traditional distinctions between prose and poetry, allowing the novel to flow between six not dissimilar interior monologues. The book similarly breaks down traditional boundaries between people, and Woolf herself wrote in her Diary that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all, but rather facets of consciousness illuminating a sense of continuity. Even the name "novel" may not accurately describe the complex form of The Waves. Woolf herself called it not a novel but a "playpoem." (wikipedia)--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition. Review 'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between L3.99 and L4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.' Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May '94 (Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition. |
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