Many people know for the first time that Woolf should be the sentence in "A Room That Belongs Only to Yourself":
[If a woman wants to write a novel, she must have money and a room of her own]
This sentence has influenced many people, but I actually prefer Woolf's literary works to her "speech", and I can feel her entire mental journey and the rise of feminism.
Some time ago, I re-read 3 books of Woolf's classics and felt that Woolf was really good at writing. A hundred years ago, she accurately recognized the inequality of women's status, and began to enlighten women's independent consciousness under the patriarchal society.
Her sense of female independence is not an extreme feminist idea, not to provoke the social contradictions between men and women, but to start from women themselves, so that women are better aware of themselves and women can become themselves.
Jacob's House – published in 1922
The book is Woolf's third novel, but it is woolf's first experimental novel, in which Woolf begins his stream-of-consciousness approach.
In this book, the author tells and describes Jacob's life from different perspectives, showing Woolf's antipathy to the war and his attack on British class culture in the midst of trivialities.
[It's not disasters, homicides, deaths, diseases that age us and take our lives; it's what people look at, laugh, and run on buses.
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Mrs. Dalloway – published in 1925
This "Mrs. Dalloway" is Woolf's classic masterpiece, telling the life of the heroine Clarissa when she attends Mrs. Dalloway's party. On this day Woolf simultaneously and differently portrays Larissa's life for more than 30 years, and has seen the lives of others at the party.
In this book Woolf describes the entire group of British society before and after the First World War, with complaints about male power, war, and class.
At the same time, the rise of women's self-awareness began, and many people said that the book was a fictional version of "The Second Xing".
To the Lighthouse – published in 1927
"To the Lighthouse" is Woolf's pinnacle, an autobiographical novel, the whole book consists of 3 parts, the plot is not complicated at all. But in this book, you can see the story of Woolf's father and mother, and see her exploration of the essence of the self.
Seeing the sentence in the book, "But I'm at the bottom of the sea with more rough waves," I felt like I was caught by Woolf. In this book, both the first method of writing the stream of consciousness and the point of view that the author wants to express and the angle of describing things are already pure.
Life is not an arrangement, but a pursuit,
The meaning of life may never have an answer,
But also feel this life without answers.
—Virginia Woolf