Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf, 1925
Harvest Book, Harcourt Inc

Characters:

• Clarissa, Richard and Elisabeth Dalloway
• Peter Walsh
• Hugh and Evelyn Whitbread
• Miss Doris Kilman
• Sally Senton
• Septimus and Lucrezia (Rezia) Warren Smith
• Dr Holmes
• Sir William Bradshaw
• Lady Millicent Bruton
• Miss Milly Brush

Des destins qui se croisent sans se comprendre, sans vraiment se remarquer (comme Fabrice à Waterloo). Peter voit entrer Elisabeth sans comprendre le rapport avec Miss Kilman. Il entend l'ambulance qui emporte Septimus. Le docteur Holmes ne comprend pas qu'il est responsable de la mort de celui-ci (ou il le cache bien). Un jeu de billard avec des collisions brèves et dont les boules ne gardent pas la mémoire.

Incipit, p 3

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

p 47

Take me with you, Clarissa thought impulsively, as if he were starting directly upon some great voyage; and then, next moment, it was as if the five acts of a play that had been very exciting and moving were now over and she had lived a lifetime in them and had run away, had lived with Peter, and it was now over.

p 182

A part of this Sally must always be; Peter must always be. But she must leave them.

p 194 (last words)

"I will come," said Peter, but he sat on for a moment. What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.