The Years

Virginia Woolf is a world-famous English writer, critic, and theorist of modernism. Her novel “The Years” is one of her most significant works—almost a parallel to Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga.” The events of the novel unfold over more than fifty years. At the center of the narrative is the Pargeiter family: Colonel Abel Pargiter, his wife, mistress, seven children, their wives and husbands, numerous relatives. Where does the stream of life go? Where does it carry people? What happens next? These key questions remain unanswered… In “The Years,” Woolf brings together “the stream of consciousness” and elements of detailed observation, conveys “moments of existence,” presents one day in the life of a protagonist as a microcosm of the world, replays the past in the present moment, and looks at the present through the prism of the past.