![]() ![]() Like Clarissa Dalloway, each woman prepares for a party to be held later in the day. Dalloway, The Hours follows three women on a single day in June. Here, the lives and relationships of three women slowly start to unravel, revealing the rich, and often tortured, nature of human experience contained in the apparently mundane. ![]() Dalloway,” Cunningham wrote in his introduction to the 2021 Vintage Classics edition of the book, “Woolf insists that a single, outwardly ordinary day in the life of a woman named Clarissa Dalloway, an outwardly rather ordinary person, contains just about everything one needs to know about human life, in more or less the way nearly every cell contains the entirety of an organism’s DNA.” And indeed, Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Hours (1998) dives even further into the depiction of several “ordinary” days. Yet for novelist Michael Cunningham, it is the very mundanity of Clarissa Dalloway’s day that makes the novel so remarkable. The society wife Clarissa Dalloway wakes up, buys flowers, passes through a park, and returns home to prepare for a party that evening. Originally titled The Hours, the novel follows a single woman on a single day in June. Yet its well-earned status in the canon of Western literature can obscure just how (seemingly) simple the book’s content really is. Dalloway is a landmark of stream-of-consciousness prose, a hallmark of 20th-century avant-garde literature. The Novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham, Inspired by Virginia Woolf's Novel Mrs. ![]()
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