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Loading... The Years (original 1937; edition 1977)by Virginia Woolf
Work InformationThe Years by Virginia Woolf (1937)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. De jaren zijn momentopnames, te vergelijken met herinneringen aan ons eigen leven: er zijn jaren die eruit springen, waarvan we ons hele periodes voor de geest kunnen halen, als bergtoppen in de verte. Daartussen liggen de mistige dalen van de jaren die vergeten zijn.In een serie schetsen, van 1880 tot de jaren dertig, verweeft Virginia Woolf de geschiedenis van de familie Pargiter met gebeurtenissen uit de wereldgeschiedenis: de Boerenoorlog, de Eerste Wereldoorlog, de suffragette-beweging, de Ierse kwestie, India en het kolonialisme, de benzinemotor die het paard verdrong, elektrisch licht dat de gaslamp verdrong, de avant-garde, de nieuwe atoomtheorie. De jaren is een prachtig geschreven reeks portretten van een familie, tegen de achtergrond van een samenleving die je voor je ogen ziet veranderen.Bij Woolf is de geschiedenis geen continuüm. Ze vervlecht het publieke met het persoonlijke en zoekt naar de essentie van geschiedenis, met de beleefde tijd en de herinnering als rode draad. net als bij Tolstoi en Proust gaat het niet alleen over de lotgevallen van een familie, maar ook over geschiedenis en herinnering. Reason read: it was free on Audible Play but expiring 5/3/24. So I decided to read it. It is a good one. Her last book that she wrote/published. This is a story of 3 generations a a family. Themes in this book is time, memory and especially looks at the life of women and women who are establishing their careers. Over all I liked this one. It covers a lot. Of course it is SOC but it works well for this book because it shows how our thoughts are interrupted and even forgotten and the problems with memories. I can recommend this one. It may help to read a bit about the story before you read it because then you can catch the themes. Here's what I wrote about this read in 2013: "Second Woolf read. The Partiger family over time, as the season pass and milestone events happen in English history. Good to have read a bit more of her work, learn a bit more about English culture of her day, but can't really say it's brilliant, excting, humorous, or overly instructive." Quotations in the comments section are my exact kindle highlights. My first time reading this Woolf, and I can see why it would have been a shock when it first came out. on the other hand, it's just as experimental as her previous handful of novels, but the experiment is different. And it's quite enjoyable, though I confess it was a bit too long. The last quarter was comparatively tedious. no reviews | add a review
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Written in 1937, The Years was the most popular of Virginia Woolf's novels during her lifetime. It explores a rich variety of themes such as sex, feminism, family life, education, and politics in English society from 1800 to the 1930s, as they affect one large upper-class London family. The principal theme of this ambitious book is time, threading together three generations of the Pargiter family. The story begins on a day in 1880 in the household of Colonel Abel Pargiter, his dying wife, and their seven children, and it ends in the 1930s with a brilliantly depicted party at which the Pargiters, young and old, pass in review. Important events-births, deaths, marriages, wars-occur in the wings; it is the commonplace moments that are captured here in a sequence of perfectly drawn scenes. As the Pargiters move from the oppressive confines of the Victorian home of the 1880s to the 1930s, they are weighed down by the pressures of war, capitalism, empire, and the rise of Fascism. No library descriptions found. |
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