This article is about the Virginia Woolf novel. For other uses, see The Wave and Waves (disambiguation).
The Waves
First edition cover
Author
Virginia Woolf
Cover artist
Vanessa Bell
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Experimental novel
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Publication date
October 8, 1931
Pages
324
The Waves is a 1931 novel by English novelist Virginia Woolf. It is critically regarded as her most experimental work,[1] consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis.[2] Percival, a seventh character, appears in the soliloquies, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice.
The dialogues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. As the six characters or "voices" speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. “Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness”, according to a reviewer.[3]
In a 2015 poll conducted by the BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written.[4]
^Goldman, Jane. "From Mrs Dalloway to The Waves: New elegy and lyric experimentalism." The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Ed. Susan Sellers. Second Edition, 2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.49
^Roe, Sue; Susan Sellers (8 May 2000). The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge University Press. p. 308. ISBN 0-521-62548-3.
^Klitgård, Ida. 2004. On the Horizon: A Poetics of the Sublime in Virginia Woolf's The Waves. Bethesda, MD: Academica Press.
^"The 100 greatest British novels". BBC. 7 December 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
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