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Night and Day 4 csillagozás
Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William, and her dangerous attraction to the lower-class Ralph. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women – women's rights activist Mary Datchet and Katharine's mother, struggling to weave together the documents, events and memories of her father's life into a biography – impinge on hers with unexpected and intriguing consequences. Virginia Woolf's light, delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it also subtly undermines these traditions, questioning a woman's role and the very nature of experience.
Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1919
A következő kiadói sorozatban jelent meg: Vintage Classics Vintage
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KNW I>!
All was said about VW and this novel, that paves the way for her literary style that comes anew like a bomb shell dropped into the village pond… Everyone should read at least some of VW texts, to see what character really means.
http://www.krisznadasiwrites.hu/blog/miert-olvass-virgi…
flamepetals>!
Woolf stílusa még mindig bejön, de a történet nem. Ez a szerelmes katyvasz, ahol senki nincs tisztában az érzéseivel egy idő után fárasztó. Ráadásul annyira mikroszkóp alá veszi a szerelmet, hogy a végére az teljesen eltűnik, így én igazán romantikusnak se nevezném. A karakterek közül egyedül az anya volt szimpatikus, aki engem egy kicsit Mrs Dallowayre emlékeztetett. Ezeket a problémákat pedig sajnos a gyönyörű írásmód nem tudja elfeledtetni.
Népszerű idézetek
csiripelek>!
'All this money-making and working ten hours a day in an office, what's it for? When one's a boy, you see, one's head is so full of dreams that it doesn't seem to matter what one does. And if you're ambitious, you're all right; you've got a reason for going on. Now my reasons ceased to satisfy me. Perhaps I never had any. That's very likely now that I come to think of it. (What reason is there for anything, tough?) Still, it's impossible, after a certain age, to take oneself in satisfactorily. And I know what carried me on' – for a good reason now occured to him – 'I wanted to be the saviour of my family and all that kind of thing. I wanted them to get on in the world. That was a lie, of course – a kind of self-glorification, too. Like most people, I suppose, I've lived almost entirely among delusions, and now I'm at the awkward stage of finding it out. I want another delusion to go on with. That's what my unhappiness amounts to, Mary.'
206. oldal
csiripelek>!
'But for me I suppose you would recommend marriage?' said Katharine, with her eyes fixed on the moon.
'Certainly I should. Not for you only, but for all women. Why, you are nothing at all without it; you're only half alive; using half your faculties; you must feel that for yourself. That is why -' Here he stopped himself, and they began to walk slowly along the Embankment, the moon fronting them. […]
'I've been told a great many unpleasant things about myself tonight,' Katharine stated, without attending to him. 'Mr Denham seems to think it his mission to lecture me, though I hardly know him. By the way, William, you know him; tell me, what is he like?'
William drew a deep sigh.
"We may lecture you till we're blue in the face-'
'Yes- but what's he like?'
59-60. oldal
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