Mrs Dalloway -

Virginia Woolf

Harcout

1981

197 páginas

6h 34m

ISBN-10: 0151009988

As Clarissa Dalloway walks through London on a fine June morning, a sky-writing plane captures her attention. Crowds stare upwards to decipher the message while the plane turns and loops, leaving off one letter, picking up another. Like the airplane's swooping path, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway follows Clarissa and those whose lives brush hers--from Peter Walsh, whom she spurned years ago, to her daughter Elizabeth, the girl's angry teacher, Doris Kilman, and war-shocked Septimus Warren Smith, who is sinking into madness.
As Mrs. Dalloway prepares for the party she is giving that evening, a series of events intrudes on her composure. Her husband is invited, without her, to lunch with Lady Bruton (who, Clarissa notes anxiously, gives the most amusing luncheons). Meanwhile, Peter Walsh appears, recently from India, to criticize and confide in her. His sudden arrival evokes memories of a distant past, the choices she made then, and her wistful friendship with Sally Seton.

Woolf then explores the relationships between women and men, and between women, as Clarissa muses, "It was something central which permeated; something warm which broke up surfaces and rippled the cold contact of man and woman, or of women together.... Her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love?" While Clarissa is transported to past afternoons with Sally, and as she sits mending her green dress, Warren Smith catapults desperately into his delusions. Although his troubles form a tangent to Clarissa's web, they undeniably touch it, and the strands connecting all these characters draw tighter as evening deepens. As she immerses us in each inner life, Virginia Woolf offers exquisite, painful images of the past bleeding into the present, of desire overwhelmed by society's demands.

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4.5 (Muito bom)

Mrs. Dalloway

Conta sobre um dia em que Clarissa Dalloway faria uma festa em sua casa, mais um dia normal na vida da personagem em junho de 1923, pouco tempo após a primeira Guerra Mundial e retrata muito bem a sociade Inglesa da época.
A relação da história com o tempo é relativa, ora temos a perspectiva do presente e passado, ora temos o big ben norteando o tempo durante o dia. A narração é feita por passado e presente, dentro e fora da mente dos personagens, com o objetivo de construir uma imagem mais profunda de Clarissa.
Mrs Dalloway, para a época, era considerada uma mulher sem talentos e se sentia vazia, e por esses motivos, além da busca por um lugar ba sociedade e aumentar a popularidade de seu marido, Richard Dalloway, ela dava festas em sua casa e era uma boa anfitriã.
O livro exige concentração e pode ser um pouco confuso no começo e é um ótimo livro para a introdução da leitura de Virgínia Woolf.