5/12/2023 0 Comments The pargiters![]() As opposed to The Waves, in which characters blend together to achieve a sense of bodilessness, the characters in The Years are very much embodied, and though the book feels less universal in scope, Woolf actually covers more spiritual ground here, skipping lightly over many ideas as the years pass. The Pargiters was Woolf’s original title for the novel, and it fits-the book spans years (the sections are divided by date ranges until the last section, titled “the present moment”), but these are specific years, for specific people, in a specific place. ![]() ![]() Like the people it follows, it plods along elegantly. Dalloway, less poetic grandeur than The Waves. The Years is quieter, more subdued, and contains less flash and drama than Mrs. The question of how women of relative privilege are to live is at stake in both Girls and The Years.Ītching the first few episodes of the third season of Girls the other night, it occurred to me that Virginia Woolf’s last novel, The Years, has a few similarities to the much-debated HBO show. ![]()
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