Waves

Author's name: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Arab Foundation for Studies and Publishing Year of publication: 2016 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: Published for the first time in 1931, it is one of Virginia Woolf's most famous experimental novels. It is based on the monologue of the book's six characters with themselves: Bernard, Susan, Roda, Neville, Ginnie, and Louis. The important seventh character is Perseval, although the readers do not hear him and he speaks in his voice. The monologue of the characters is divided into nine brief sections that separate the scene into different stages of the day from sunrise to sunset. Through these six characters or "voices," Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self, and society. Each character differs from the others, but together they form a parable about consciousness amidst silence.