The Years -

Virginia Woolf

Penguin Classics

2002

448 páginas

14h 56m

ISBN-10: 0141185325

The most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime, The Years is a savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, edited with an introduction and notes by Jeri Johnson in Penguin Modern Classics.

The Years is the story of three generations of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century. Growing up in a typically Victorian household, the Pargiter children must learn to find their footing in an alternative world, where the rules of etiquette have shifted from the drawing-room to the air-raid shelter. A work of fluid and dazzling lucidity, The Years eschews a simple line of development in favour of a varied and constantly changing style, emphasises the radical discontinuity of personal experiences and historical events. Virginia Woolf's penultimate novel celebrates the resilience of the individual self and, in her dazzlingly fluid and distinctive voice, she confidently paints a broad canvas across time, generation and class.

Resenhas (2)

I didn't often think about how the big societal changes from the 19th century to the 20th happened within a persons life, raising such different people in just three generations of the same family. And yet, despise these changes and transformations, we as humans keep one thing the same: our desire to connect through language and conversation, and how we fail to do so.