Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf: perception and inadequacy
Description
Virginia Woolf's incredible novel Mrs. Dalloway turns 100 this year! Shruti and Neha talk about this book and its themes of perception, inadequacy, memory, illness, and death. They discuss the effect of the past on the characters, the book's imperialist and pro-colonialism project, and the disappearance of the narrator.
Books Mentioned & Shelf Discovery:
On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf
Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway edited by Merve Emre
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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