198 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 2004 by Vintage.
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak through his own voice. The monologues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset.
a hot mess of six characters whose speech bleed into one anothers as they move through life and reflexively ruminate on themselves and how they relate to their friends and the world around them. if you like pretty writing and don't care for the deeper meaning, this could also be for you (i'd recommend at least reading ths first chapter).
One of the best novels I've ever read.
A play-poem you say? The alive-with-color perfectly-passe self-narrated arc of living of six -or-so friends. Even in telling our own stories are any of us able to control our lives or look directly at those off-stage players and settings we absorb from others tales?
