I titled my review as ’the extreme’ because Mrs Dalloway is a test that stretches your brain cells’ up to their extremes. I am yet to encounter an author who is more imaginative than V. Woolf. It just shows how absorbed she was while writing.
Her maverick way of writing proves that she was not trying to prove anything. She wrote for herself. Probably to fight her own demons that ultimately led to her untimely death.
Talking about book-Its not a story to read. Its a story to live. Talk about central theme and story line you will be left wondering. I would suggest that one read the book as if testing wine..slowly !Recreating each scene and getting in to the skin of characters.
The central character Clarissa (Mrs Dalloway) is the least prominent of all in terms of catching attention. I would say she is the central character around whom other more interesting characters flourish. Personally I like Septimus, Rezia and Peter Welsh-because of their individual characteristics and their openness about their feelings and thoughts and of course for the questions that they evoke-Like Septimus’ where he think -’does life itself has any meaning or not ?’.
The book seems to be written by a person who has gone mad because he can feel too many things. He can see beyond and can always find a reason to attach himself with his surroundings-including humans.
The book is gloomy so powerful. Not for people who like fast pace reading .One can only appreciate the book when one decides to give it time otherwise one would be totally lost in the long, meandering sentences.
Highly recommended !