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The Waves, experimental novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1931. The Waves was one of her most inventive and complex books. It reflects Woolf’s greater concern with capturing the poetic rhythm of life than with maintaining a traditional focus on character and plot.
The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice.
Overview. The Waves by Virginia Woolf was published in 1931. Widely considered to be Woolf’s most experimental work, The Waves is a proponent of themes and techniques of modernism, including stream-of-consciousness narration and the use of leitmotifs.
The Waves is considered one of Woolf’s most experimental and poetic works and is often cited as an example of her stream-of-consciousness style. Read a plot summary, important quotes, and an in-depth analysis of Bernard.
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The Waves. Virginia Woolf. Oxford University Press, 1998 - Fiction - 260 pages. Woolf described this work on the title-page of the first draft as the life of anybody. The novel (1931) traces the...
In its formal experimentation, its implied attack on conventional aspects of the novel, The Waves is analogous to Finnegans Wake – though there is no evidence that she read the ‘Work in Progress’, as it was called at the time, or that the acute consciousness of Joyce which stimulated her earlier efforts extended to this work.
