I appreciate the flow of time and thought as we hold close to the character for a single day and yet journey with her to fateful moments of her youth. My first real exposure to Mrs. Dalloway was through the movie adaptation of the book The Hours, which was inspired by Dalloway, and includes my favorite performance of Nicole Kidman. I’ve not read the book, however, and may have to rectify that when I have some room in my reading schedule.
I recommend the Virginia Woolf Reading Group, and if you’d like to comment on the book, I’d love that discussion.
Tangentially, I was just thinking of Rachel Cusk’s criticism of Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests as being “costume drama” because it had an anachronistically modern preoccupation with a lesbian sexual relationship. To which I thought, did Cusk just out herself as never having read Woolf or, heck, Henry James? (Obviously Waters is more modern in being more explicit. Because no one was explicit back then … cough … Joyce! Cough cough.)
Now that's interesting! I'm not even sure I understand the thinking. Anyone in a relationship is obsessed with the relationship. The world is centered on our own little dramas.
Tangentially, I was just thinking of Rachel Cusk’s criticism of Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests as being “costume drama” because it had an anachronistically modern preoccupation with a lesbian sexual relationship. To which I thought, did Cusk just out herself as never having read Woolf or, heck, Henry James? (Obviously Waters is more modern in being more explicit. Because no one was explicit back then … cough … Joyce! Cough cough.)
Now that's interesting! I'm not even sure I understand the thinking. Anyone in a relationship is obsessed with the relationship. The world is centered on our own little dramas.
And I appreciate the response. I didn't think these were going out as emails!