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An impressionist painting. In "The Gender of Narration in Virginia Woolf's early novels-, one can find interesting lines that also would correspondent to my personal view of V. Woolf's novel as an impressionist painting (I think the whole book consists of reflections, flashes of sudden vivid images, in the eyes of the reader becoming a colourful and rich impressionist painting). The authors of "Gender of Narration - write: "She abandoned the realist techniques which were the characteristic of her predecessors by structuring her work according to the style in contemporary painting. A break with realism and a challenge to the centrality of the human subject were essential in her own work. The Post-Impressionist movement which affected the contemporary painters with whom she was in contact also influenced her conception of the novel."" This effect is connected with the manner in which she as an author has created the narration and language and tone that she has given to the narrator(s). The narration indeed creates wonderful imagery of the setting of place, whoever or whatever the narrator might be, the outer world, when looked upon objectively, is reflected very beautifully. In opposite to the characters' subjective reflections of emotions, scenes through their eyes are rather presented than "narrated-. E.g., we get quite a realistic picture of London and its streets and parks, etc.
Highly emotional and psychological. Her novels could be considered both as highly literate and psychological. The effect that her novels create on a reader's mind is not achieved by offering a exciting breathtaking plot but rather by presenting the deep and emotional lives of the characters. Their inner lives, their inner worlds. The narration does not create a story "as such-; it rather reflects the thoughts by getting into people's minds. The method that the author uses to present the character, thus, is not as we might see it in the literature of Romanticism (character revealed in marginal situations!) or Realism (again, character revealed through "action-, though it takes longer time and sets him/her in realistic surroundings).
