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The Years by Virginia Woolf, which follows the members of the same family, the Pargiters, over three generations. In this time, their lives and the world around them change drastically, and they struggle to grasp the meaning of life and connect with other people.
The Years was both the last and the most popular of Virginia Woolf’s novels to published during her lifetime. Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most significant English-language writers of the 20th century; her best-known works include the novels
Mrs Dalloway,
The Waves and
Orlando, and the essays
A Room of One’s Own and
Three Guineas.
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VIRGINIA WOOLF
ENGLISH WRITER
Born in London in 1882.Died in Rodmell (Lewes, East Sussex) in 1941.Notable works:Mrs Dalloway (1925), novelTo the Lighthouse (1927), novelThe Waves (1931), novelVirginia Woolf was a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and publisher. She is a key figure in 20th-century literature and is particularly recognised as a modernist and feminist author. A daughter of a prominent man of letters, Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), she was always a voracious reader. After the deaths of her mother and step-sister, soon followed by her father and brother, her adolescent traumas left her prone to mental breakdowns and hearing voices. With her sister Vanessa Bell (painter, 1879-1961), she gathered bohemian intellectuals to form the Bloomsbury Group. The Hogarth Press, which she and her husband Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) founded in 1917, published emerging, innovative writers. Her own writing – especially from her third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), onwards – is noted for its lyrical, impressionistic, and experimental style, departing from objective realism and continuously exploring fresh ways of expressing the inner lives of individuals. She also wrote the influential feminist treatises A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938). Fearing another onset of mental illness, she drowned herself in the River Ouse near her home in 1941.
THE YEARS
A CHRONICLE OF THE PARGITER FAMILY FROM THE 1880S TO THE 1930S
Genre: novel (also described as an essay-novel)Reference edition: Woolf, V. (2002) The Years. London: Penguin Books.1stedition: 1937Themes: time, memory, life, consciousness, patterns, solitude, society, modernityThe Years was the last novel that Virginia Woolf published during her lifetime. It has the distinction of being her most financially successful novel by far, but its early critical reception was severe. First conceived as an essay-novel, combining historical essays and fictional passages, Woolf’s aim was to explore the experience of women, and in particular their entry into professions. While the essays were eventually excised and Woolf rearranged the whole shape into a novel, it is a work that challenges the reader to confront the issues of women’s rights, class distinctions, poverty, homosexuality, militarism, and political propaganda. Its expansive framework is the saga of three generations of the Pargiter family. Each section is set in a certain year; although this ostensibly orders the novel chronologically, it is patterned in loops of repetitions, and there is no straightforward development. The narrative unfolds through the introspective reflections of various characters who struggle to find a genuine connection with others, or a meaningful pattern in life, as their words and thoughts are always interrupted. Things slip away, as time flows incessantly.
