Mrs Dalloway #1

Rita Maffei/Paola Fresa/Francesca Osso

Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, a rich middle-aged lady, goes down to Bond Street to buy flowers for her party. Her thoughts, inner monologue, stream of consciousness, moments of being are the novel, and the connection with Septimus Smith, a First World War veteran who commits suicide at the end of the novel, is very strong.
Virginia and Clarissa are so close, in their attraction to women, in pure, unselfish love, but above all in their sensitivity and anguish, which will lead Virginia to fill her pockets with stones and jump into the River Ouse.
The original title of Mrs Dalloway was The Hours, which Michael Cunningham borrowed for his novel in which the three protagonists, who live in different places and times, are closely linked: Clarissa Vaughan, a New York intellectual called Mrs Dalloway; Laura Brown, a housewife in 1950s America who, thanks to Virginia Woolf's books, will have the courage to take her own life; and Virginia Woolf herself, in the last moments before her suicide.
The first phase of the research takes its cue from these stories and arrives in the present day, at a time when we are once again talking about a war that is coming closer and closer, while we, the privileged part of the world, are busy preparing a feast.