• Title: Mrs. Dalloway
• Author: Virginia Woolf
• Genre/Subject: English literature
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1926
• Start date: 4/25/24
• Finish date: 4/29/24

Review:

This was unexpected. It was written in stream of consciousness like Joyce’s Ulysses which surprised me. I had read To The Lighthouse a couple years ago and that was conventional, so I guess I expected more of the same from this author.

Two things I didn’t like were the lack of chapters and to make that worse I was reading on my Kindle so there was no pagination either. In some of the Booker Prize winner novels I have read they do the same thing, when did it become gauche to include chapter divisions? It reminds me of when Trance producers believe themselves to be artistic geniuses and release really peculiar art fag albums that nobody asked for and nobody likes.

The novel itself, well I just don’t dig stream of consciousness so it was a slog. The writing was beautiful but it felt like art that has to be explained to you.

It worked out in the end, but that doesn’t justify the 200 pages prior to the denouement being as clear as a bucket of mud.

I’m glad I read this, but it just wasn’t my thing.