The Waves

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The Waves is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf that experiments with stream-of-consciousness monologues to trace the intertwined lives and inner worlds of six friends from childhood to old age.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf modernist novel
novel
stream-of-consciousness fiction
author Virginia Woolf
centralAbsentFigure Percival
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
dedicatedTo Vita Sackville-West
firstEditionFormat print
followedBy The Years
form lyric prose
novel in voices
genre experimental fiction
fiction
hasAdaptation radio adaptations
stage adaptations
hasPart nine interludes describing the sea and the sun
influencedBy European avant-garde
surface form: European modernism

James Joyce
literaryMovement Bloomsbury Group
literaryPeriod modernism
mainCharacter Bernard
Jinny
Louis
Neville
Rhoda
Susan
narrativeTechnique interior monologue
stream of consciousness
notableFor absence of conventional plot
fusion of poetry and prose
radical narrative experimentation
numberOfMainCharacters 6
originalLanguage English
partOf Virginia Woolf bibliography
precededBy The Years
publicationYear 1931
publisher Hogarth Press
setting England
structure interspersed with third-person interludes
series of soliloquies
theme friendship
identity
individual versus collective self
memory
mortality
subjective consciousness
time

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Virginia Woolf notableWork The Waves