mrs dalloway

In the aftermath of the First World War the English literature could take pride in having handed over to the universal canon the figures of J. Joyce, T.S. Eliot, D.H. Lawrence or Virginia Stephen, better known as Virginia Woolf, on whose fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, we will turn the spotlight on this paper.
First published in 1925, it has been widely recognised ever since as one of the most outstanding achievements of the 20th century. The comedy of manners and tragedy are interwoven by means of the party that Clarissa Dalloway holds and the end of a man. It is, no doubt, an autobiographical piece of writing in which Woolf’s style appears as firmly established, but what concerns us here is to try and find if it can be thought of as a modernist novel at all.In the aftermath of the First World War the English literature could take pride in having handed over to the ...