Man has no harbor, time has no rives_ Alphonse de Lamartine

It is a novel which is used the "stream of consciousness": a series of interior monologues, one is in the heads of six characters that make up this work. 3 boys, 3 girls. And a character which you do not hear the inner voice of his thought: Perceval. We see the characters grow, change. Each has its own personality, some are more or less alike, some are radically different but they are friends. But it's Perceval, though absent, most influences our protagonists.

One has the impression that Virginia Woolf has a share of herself in each character, especially Bernard, which can not help to write down everything he feels and sees, as Virginia Woolf, it is very sensitive to the passage of time, however, it is certainly the character we hear most about in the book. But Bernard can not be totally alone, it needs interactions, it draws inspiration from discussions with people randomly encountered. As he said, I do not believe in values ​​separate lives, none of us is complete in himself.

But Rhoda, Jinny, Louis, Susan, Neville are rather solitary. The Time obsesses. The waves symbolize precisely this current that carries us in spite of us, it is of course time. The image of water associated with the time was used by the romantics (Byron, Lamartine, Wordsworth ...).

Reading this novel, when one realizes themes such as the passage of time, melancholy, introspection, life, one thinks of course romanticism but also the VW picture that serves as a cover for " a room of their own "where Virginia Woolf appears completely lost in thought. Because she's a woman, I find, introverted, always in his thoughts, as if the world was only a dream.

It is true that this book is not easy but as I said in another post, each page is a poem after it is a question of sensitivity. I think those who like romance will not be disappointed. For VW talks about the weather, of the individual, of thought, of the nature and (unfortunately) of death. Even alone, a chance meeting can influence us. As she says in the new "novel writing": "life is what one sees in the eyes of others."

Me who likes to write citations and passages of each book I read, I was served with Virginia Woolf, whose writing is, in my eyes, sublime.