Literary works - Virgina Woolf - The Waves

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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

Born: January 25, 1882, South Kensington, London, United Kingdom

Died: March 28, 1941, Lewes, United Kingdom

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It seems very pretentious to begin by having the first contact with the author through this book, considering that herself claimed to be her most complex work.
It is a dense book that already throw a flood of emotions to the reader without warning, and has a narrative with a unique rhythm and a little difficult to accustom and understand.

Another characteristic of this work is that these perspectives are alternated sometimes in short paragraph spaces, there is no division, an alternation in chapters for each character, they come as waves, as the title suggests, and it is up to the reader to try and adjust each perception in that short space. And also there are almost no direct dialogs between one and the other, the scenes are "shaped" according to their particular thoughts and feelings about things, reinforcing the Idea of ​​living in a monologue.

Virginia's writing is sensational, it's the kind that should be savored and appreciated. So poetic, so intense and so original that it's impossible not to surrender.
I know they are not very innovative adjectives, but they are the only ones that really can explain the greatness of the author.

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"(...) I wish to dive; visit remote depths; to exercise from time to time my prerogative not to always act, but also to explore; to listen to vague, ancestral sounds, of clicking branches, of mammoths; to have indulgence for the impossible desires of embracing with the arms of understanding the whole world - impossible desires for those who act. "

Virginia Woolf, made her debut in literature in 1915 with a novel (The Voyage Out) and later would have performed a series of notable works, which would claim to be the title of "English Proust." He died in 1941, having committed suicide.
Virginia Woolf was the daughter of publisher Leslie Stephen, who gave her a thorough education, so that the young woman would have frequented the literary world from an early age.
In 1912, he married Leonard Woolf, with whom he founded in 1917 Hogarth Press, a publisher that unveiled writers such as Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Virginia Woolf had depressive crises. In 1941, she left a note for her husband, Leonard Woolf, and for her sister, Vanessa. In this note, she says goodbye to the people she loved most in life, and kills herself triumphantly.