Embracing
formal innovations like stream-of-consciousness and narrative fragmentation, Virginia Woolf’s writing expanded the boundaries of modern
fiction, reshaping our ideas about the ability of the novel to represent
ordinary life and record swift, historical change. “Let us record the atoms as
they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall,” she advised,
referring to her experimental prose capable of linking the apparently insignificant
and immediate facts of daily life (shifts in mood, quotidian interactions,
sensations, and judgements) to broader social events (war, patriarchy,
technological developments, environmental transformations, and artistic
renovations).
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