Ms. Daluway

Author's name: Virginia Woolf Publisher: Al-Takween for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2020 Literary classification: Novel Brief about the book: The novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by the English writer Virginia Woolf belongs to post-World War I literature, which aimed to describe the lives of European societies and aristocratic classes that collapsed due to the war and people's suffering from the effects of conflicts between major countries. The psychological dimension of Woolf is clear in the main character of the novel, Mrs. Dalloway, as the novelist Woolf suffered from episodes of madness and psychological disorders, possibly caused by nervous breakdowns that recurred after the death of her mother when she was a child, and then the death of her father when she was a young girl. The novel "Mrs. Dalloway," published in 1925, is one of the most important novels of feminist literature, in which the narrator can delve into the depths of characters and infer their inner worlds in an exciting and astonishing way, using the stream of consciousness narrative technique, making this novel a foundation and key to understanding the entire stream of consciousness.