Mrs Dalloway
Bok av Virginia Woolf
Considered by many critics to be Woolf's masterpiece, Mrs Dalloway was published by Hogarth Press in 1925. The plot follows a single day in the lead up to a party being hosted by Clarissa Dalloway, interspersed with flashbacks and switches in point of view to other principal characters so as to provide a background of their lives and comment on the social structure of the 1920s. In addition to Mrs Dalloway, the other focus is Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of the war who suffers from 'shell shock'. Though the two never meet, the hinge of the day's activities is Smith's suicide and the subsequent impact it has on Mrs Dalloway's thoughts - she thinks him quite admirable.
En liten men väldigt bra bok av Virginia Wolf, kommer fortfarande ihåg den trots att jag läste den för snart 20 år sedan.
Mrs Dalloway sade att hon skulle köpa blommorna själv. Så börjar denna bok som utspelar sig under ett dygn i London. Boken handlar om plikter och konventioner, psykisk ohälsa och homosexualitet men också om meningen med livet. Vi får följa Clarissa Dalloway som ska ställa till en fest för sin man. En vacker och rörande bok.