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- Season 1 James Joyce: Ulysses
- Season 1 Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
- Season 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
- Season 1 Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
- Season 1 Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Season 1 Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
- Season 1 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- Season 1 Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author
- Season 1 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
- Season 1 Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Season 1 Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers - Season 1 Episode 7 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
0.00 48 minutes Virginia Woolf pushed the boundaries of the novel as a tool for psychological inquiry through her experimentation with subjective and relativistic perceptions of time and events. This program intercuts scenes from a compelling dramatization of Mrs. Dalloway with a portrayal of Virginia Woolf—played by actress Eileen Atkins—who, based on entries from her diary, explicates the story. Literary critic Hermione Lee addresses topics in the novel such as the significance of shared external events and the theme of emotional bankruptcy, both of which propel this drama of the mind.
