World Literature Book Club
Tuesday, July 2 - 2:30 PM
Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper class lady in post World War I England, as she prepares for a dinner party. With an interior perspective, the story travels forwards and backwards in time to construct an image of Clarissa's life and the inter-war social structure. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experiences through multiple interwoven perspectives, Clarissa's, Septimus', a WWI veteran who suffers PTSD and is waiting to see a therapist, and Peter Walsh's, a former lover of Clarissa. Woolf's novel offers a representation of the complex nature of human psychology and life in its blend of third person, interior monologue, and stream of consciousness narrative style. Limited to 15 participants.