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Chargement... The Yearspar Virginia Woolf, Eleanor McNees (Annotation and Introduction)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. First Virginia's book I've read. Liked it.... but nothing like the others. She was a phenomenon, a very unique happening in 2000 years of literature. Nothing extraordinary in this book - still the first book I ever read containing mostly women characters ! Time. All her books are about time going by... past and present happening apparently in the same time (the action time); many writers at the beginning of the XXth century brought new, different visions on time (Proust, Mann, Joyce) in the modern literature, trying to align it with the latest scientific discoveries (Bergson) - but VW used her very particular technique to express her vision on time & life. All the (strong) characters are actually allowed to introduce themselves - through their deep thinking and sometimes even acts; great art of imagining every single person's thoughts.... and keeping it believable. VW's writer's journal says it all about her masterpieces; worth reading before any of her novels. A lot to discover about her among Aldous Huxley's pages (one of her best friends). aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The Years is a sweeping tale of three generations of the Pargiter family, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, in the thick of life's cycles of birth, death, and the search for a pattern in all the chaos. Annotated and with an introduction by Eleanor McNees Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.912Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1901-1945Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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"The Years" is very much about the passage of time, shown through some vignettes looking into the experiences of the Pargiter family (and their near relations.) The novel stretches from the 1880's to the 1930's, as the family ages, looks back and tries to make sense of their lives.
The characters are really interesting and the relationships between them often complex (and often only hinted at) which makes this book a fun and entertaining read. ( )