Night and Day
4 journalers for this copy...
I've heard so much about Virginia Woolf's life and death, so it was interesting to finally read one of her books.
Thanks so much for your donation stringofpearls!
This book is now part of the 1001-library. If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the 1001-library bookshelf.
Sending this to Vasha who offered to store it for 1001-library.
In Night and Day (1919), Virginia Woolf continued to explore the predicaments faced by a young upper-middle-class woman whose passivity and obedience to social and familial norms and demands conceal a complex inner life. Her heroine, Katherine Hilbery, is a dutiful daughter who seeks escape from the world of letters, inextricably bound up with Victorian lives, which characterizes her own family. Woolf depicts the difficult search for solitude and contrasts Katherine’s life with that of Mary Datchet, a young suffrage worker making her own way in London. She is a woman alone “working out her plans far into the night” who exists at a far remove from the marriage plot of which Katherine is ambivalently but inescapably a part.
The city is at the heart of Night and Day, its streets and spaces seemingly shaping, and shaped by, its characters’ shifting moods. The novel offers a self-consciously comic resolution, in the tradition of a Shakespeare play or a Mozart opera, in which the curtains of drawing rooms part and close on scenes and in which courtship is played out in London parks. This narrative self-consciousness, and the invocation of a world of thought and experience underlying the busy texture of the everyday, indicate some of the ways in which Woolf sought to break with the “naturalism” of the early twentieth century. At the novel’s close, Katherine stands on the threshold of her home, poised between past and future, her domain and the city, night and day. — Laura Marcus in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
The city is at the heart of Night and Day, its streets and spaces seemingly shaping, and shaped by, its characters’ shifting moods. The novel offers a self-consciously comic resolution, in the tradition of a Shakespeare play or a Mozart opera, in which the curtains of drawing rooms part and close on scenes and in which courtship is played out in London parks. This narrative self-consciousness, and the invocation of a world of thought and experience underlying the busy texture of the everyday, indicate some of the ways in which Woolf sought to break with the “naturalism” of the early twentieth century. At the novel’s close, Katherine stands on the threshold of her home, poised between past and future, her domain and the city, night and day. — Laura Marcus in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
This book is now back on the 1001 library bookshelf and can be borrowed by PMing Vasha:)
If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the library bookshelf.
For the VBB.
Journal Entry 7 by kobie03 at Lewins Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada on Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Book arrived. Thanks.
