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onnd reading
Im glad I returned to this, Its wonderful second tier Woolf, Its greatest strength is its highly enigmatic means of advancing the narrative, I dont place it up there with sitelinkMrs, Dalloway or sitelinkTo The Lighthouse or sitelinkThe Waves or sitelinkOrlando or sitelinkJacobs Room, But its still highly readableadroitly leaping from consciousness to consciousness, At times Woolf pulls away to indulge a descriptive tchotchke by way of transition, Its the only thing, I think, that dates the book, Literary fiction today mostly minimizes such flights, Read sitelinkA Writers Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf to see how she gutted this one out, The severity of her labors seems to me most manifest in the lack of spritely humor which makes a number of the other books such gems.
Notes fromst reading
I will not call the early going a slog, but the novel did fail to engage me until pageor so.
After that, all was well, The novel took off as a proper Virginia Woolf novel should, By the end of the long party scene which closes the book I was familiarly dazzled, I have to admit that I find the content almost unsummarizable, There's no plot to speak of, It's the technique that astonishes, Woolf's concern is not the quotidian, and often not the particular, but the structural, There are any number of exchanges between characters, sometimes arguments, in which the reader has no idea of the issues involved, Woolf deliberately takes the emphasis off the particular here and this somehow pulls the characterizations into the foreground more strongly, I'm not sure how she does it, It's impressive. She uses the technique throughout, As for the timeline, it seems almost capricious, Here are the years which form the chapter heads:,,,,,,,,,and Present Day, As with a bildungsroman, Woolf's interest is in the developmental arc over time, But unlike the bildungsroman there is no movement toward a set goal, life being thinly plotted, Neither is there a single central character but rather an ensemble effect, Much takes place offstage: births and deaths and weddings and childbirth, Woolf's concern is with the interstitial moments, when the effect of time has its cumulative impact, No mi libro preferido de Virginia Woolf, y aún así lo he disfrutado, o más bien me he dejado llevar completamente por esa corriente de pensamientos que definen las historias de la autora.
El libro nos lleva a conocer la vida de una familia de clase media/alta inglesa desde finales del siglo XIX hasta los añosdel XX.
Lo peculiar de esta "saga familiar" es que en cada capítulo veremos un fragmento de la vida de unos o varios personajes, una anécdota, un momento concreto, que nos hará comprender su vida, pensamiento e incluso la sociedad que le rodeaba.
En los años que narra esta novela tiene lugar un cambio generacional bastante importante, además de la lucha sufragista o una guerra mundial, pero la autora lo cuenta todo a través de detalles muy sutiles e ingeniosos, lo que francamente me encantó y me demostró de nuevo la genialidad de Woolf.
También es una historia a veces confusa o extraña, y no siempre conecté con sus personajes aunque hay algunos maravillosos como Eleanor, al terminar el libro me quedó una sensación extraña.
A veces pienso que me perdí algo de lo que quería contar Virginia Woolf en esta novela, . . pero por otro lado creo que lo importante no es tanto entender como sentir y empatizar con todos estos personajes que son piezas de la propia autora.
Y eso siempre lo consigo con ella, من شاید این کتابهایی که یک نسل یا یک خانواده را سالها پیگیری می کنند دوست دارم. برایم مثال زندگی واقعی است و
خوب درکش می کنم حتی اگر براحتی نشود خواندش مثل این یکی. . ولی برای من دوست داشتنی بود نسخه درجهیااز صد سال تنهایی. . “Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with, ” Joe Wenteworth
Released in, less than four years before Virginia Woolf would fill her coat pockets with stones and stride into the River Ouse, The Years was the last of Woolfs novels to be published in her lifetime.
I knew that tidbit going in and I kinda wish I hadnt, I am certain that the knowledge tainted my perception, It gave me a hard case of melancholy and, once it sets in, melancholy is a difficult feeling to shake,
“How terrible old age was, she thought shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the center, ”
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In places, The Years reads more like a diary than a novel, Detailed and personal, it has a somewhat Brontë feel to it Emily, not Charlotte, I found it to be rather dispiriting and somber, but just how much of that is me and how much of that is Woolf I cannot begin to say.
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books, ” Andrei Tarkovsky Oh god, family sagas, right Who invented them and why did they hate excitement Like, are they a family of extragalactic creatures or something, or should I take a nap, because Id kinda rather do literally anything else, watching paint dry not excluded, than read about some familys ohsoimmersing trials and tribulations, over many years.
Ive got my own family to deal with, good luck topping that saga, Maybe Im the problem, who knows, Trembling with anticipation at the thought of reading this type of literature is a life skill I have yet to acquire, and I dont see that happening anytime soon, family sagas stayed at the bottom of the pit since my long past failed attempt at reading Buddenbrooks or The Forsyte Saga, I dont remember which, but it sucked so bad that I still hold a grudge.
Talk about being petty.
In any case, this is pretty much a family saga, but its Virginia Woolf, so it doesnt count, she could write tentacle porn on a bathroom wall and Id still think its the most marvellous thing I laid eyes on.
I do have a mind of my own, I swear! But I'm at a point where reading Virginia Woolf feels like being in love and youre like wow you have the most beautiful toe Ive ever seen on a human being even though everyone else says its kinda gross and not as good as your other toes.
I dont have anything else to add other than that this book is full of beauty, heart and melancholy, and people saying its not as good as her other stuff dont know what theyre talking about and theyre probably just jealous aspiring writers anyway.
Though right now Im a little delusional and I wouldnt completely trust me, Това е найдобрият роман, който съм чел на Вирджиния Улф досега.
Елеанор Парджитър е найдобрата жена героиня, която съм срещал в литературата.
Не мога да кажа нищо повече, освен да посоча найлесния за мен извод романът е брилянтен.
През цялото време се сещах за един пасаж от Бърнт Нортън на Т. С. Елиът. Подозирам, че и В. Улф също е била вдъхновена от него:
"Настоящето й миналото времеИдеей этого произведения является, что викторианская эпоха и, вообще, прежние годы ушли безвозвратно, что технический прогресс и даже простые коммунальные усовершенствования сильно изменили жизнь. Примечательна прозорливость, вложенная в уста Пегги о том, что люди будут в будущем не только слышать, но и видеть при телефонных разговорах. Писательницу волнует тема времени, ее хода, старения, памяти, воспоминаний, развития, изменений, возникающих с течением научнотехнического прогресса. Здесь объединены традиционная семейная сага от момента молодости главных героев и смерти их матери до момента их встречи в престарелом возрасте.
навярно заедно минават в бъдещето време,
а бъдещето се съдържа в миналото,
Ако цялото време винаги съществува,
цялото време е непоправимо.
Което е могло да бъде, е абстракция
постоянна възможност
само в света на разсъжденията.
Което е могло да бъде и което е
сочат към един и същи край все в настоящето.
Стъпки отекват в паметта
през прохода, по който не поехме,
към врата, която не отворихме
към градината с розите. "
Элинор размышляет в семьдесят лет, что у нее не было жизни: жизнь это то, что творят, чем распоряжаются. А у нее есть только настоящий момент, она живет здесь и сейчас, слушает фокстрот. Я не знаю, это ли жизнь
О войне изложено скупо, но автор изложила свою позицию: "Вокруг столько красоты Так чего же ради эти люди стреляют друг в друга "
Главная идея произведения на мой взгляд: Жизнь быстротечна, и нужно ценить каждый ее миг .