THE MAN AND THE MATERIAL WORLD IN VIRGINIA WOOLF’S  NOVELS “JACOB’S ROOM” AND “MRS. DALLOWAY”

https://doi.org /10.59982/18294359-24.15-mr-15

   Abstract

 The subject matter of this article is the examination of the literature of one of the outstanding English modernist writers, Virginia Woolf, and the problem of establishing the human “I”, where human senses record the process.

            As a literary critic and theorist, Woolf was also a bold experimenter who sought to explore new possibilities and perspectives of the novel genre. She used the psychological method of the “stream of consciousness” in her  prose. A method by which the “conscious reality” of the character is brought out. Through this technique, the writer creates a unique fictional world that “lives” only by its own laws.

            The most prominent representative of modernist literature in her novels attached primary importance to a person’s state of mind, his personality and feelings. While depicting human personality Virginia Woolf strives to see and capture in the moment what is inherent in human nature: all the complexity, the unfathomable changeability of his inner being, at the same time contrasting it to the eternal and lasting.

 In her works, Virginia Woolf refuses to follow rigid literary norms, in contrast to the “materialistic” writers of the previous era, considering herself “spiritual”, i.e. a “spiritual” writer. People, things, feelings are “temporary and transient”. The author strives for that “transient” to find the “spirit” in which the issues of life are embedded.

Keywords: Modernist literature, the conscious, object world, wholeness, episodicity, stream of consciousness, fragmentation,

              PAGES :153-160

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