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Novel · 1925

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

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Novel · 1925 · English · Modern

Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

One June day in London; a party; a shell-shocked veteran at the far edge of the same city.

ModernismStream of consciousnessTimeTraumaClassMortality

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Woolf tunnels backwards from each character to give them 'caves' of memory that connect underground. Septimus dies so Clarissa can feel life — an ethical scandal the book knows it is committing.

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