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About This Novel
"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This poetic experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages - from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up an unprecedented and nuanced channel for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in the palace of modern literature. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.
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