Reviews for The Years

The average rating for The Years based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-06 00:00:00 Mike Benevsky (611 From 1001 Books) - The Years, Virginia Woolf The Years is a 1937 novel by Virginia Woolf, the last she published in her lifetime. The complexity of the writing style of "Virginia Woolf" puts the reader in a barrage that, even at the end of his stories, does not leave the readers. The Years is story of boys, girls, father, mother, uncle, grandfather, cousins, daughters, servants and a family. It traces the history of the genteel Pargiter family from the 1880's to the "present day" of the mid-1930's. At the beginning of each section, and sometimes as a transition within sections, Woolf describes the changing weather all over Britain, taking in both London and countryside as if in a bird's-eye view before focusing in on her characters. Although these descriptions move across the whole of England in single paragraphs, Woolf only rarely and briefly broadens her view to the world outside Britain. عنوان: سال‌ها؛ نویسنده: ویرجینیا وولف؛ انتشاراتیها (نگاه، روزگار، و ...) ادبیات؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و ششم ماه دسامبر سال 2007میلادی عنوان: سال‌ها؛ نویسنده: ویرجینیا وولف؛ مترجم: فرهاد بدریزاده؛ تهران، نگاه، 1377؛ در 568ص؛ شابک 9646174604؛ چاپ سوم 1385؛ چاپ دیگر تهران روزگار؛ 1394؛ در 504ص؛ شابک 9789643746230؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیایی سده 20م پیچیدگی سبک نگارش «ویرجینیا وولف»، خوانشگر را در برزخی قرار میدهد، که حتی در پایان داستانهایش نیز، از آن رهایی نمییابد؛ رمان «سال‌ها»، داستان «پسرها»، دخترها، پدر، مادر، عمو، زن‌عمو، پسرعموها، دخترعموها، مستخدم و یک خانواده است کتاب به فصل‌ها تقسیم شده و در هریک شرح زندگانی چند نفر بازگو میشود؛ «ویرجینیا وولف» از دیدگاه خویش کوشیده تا بیهودگی زندگی انسان، خانواده، و فامیل را بنگارد؛ انگار کنید همان داستان «سال‌ها»ست؛ کودکی نیز همواره دریغای «ولف» بوده، برای همین است که در کتاب‌هایش، کودکان و کودکی، جایگاهی ویژه دارند؛ بنگرید: «یکی از بدترین جنبه‌ های بزرگ شدن این بود که نمی‌توانستند با هم درد دل کنند»؛ مرگ از نگاه «ولف» رخداد رویدادی بی‌همتا و بیهمانند است؛ درست همانند زندگی «دیلیا از خود پرسید: مرگ این است؟ لحظه‌ هایی چنین می‌نمود که چیزی در شرف وقوع بود»؛ آدم‌های «ولف» مصنوعی نیستند؛ معنی دارند و گوشت، پوست و خون، خندیدن به همه چیز، به زندگی، کار درست و صادقانه آن‌هاست تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 16/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-15 00:00:00 Kelly Snook [ The Years covers a similar period to Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu. His work explored a fity year period, from the 1870s'the early Swann/Odette sections'up until the 1920s. In both works, the action, if it can be called action, revolves around privileged people often seen in drawing room settings. There is a character in The Years, Lady Lasswade, who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Comtesse de Guermantes'we even see her in her opera box at one point. Another character is described making a phonecall for the first time, later seeing an aeroplane rising above rooftops, also a first. There is an uneasy relationship with a faithful family servant who is retired off when the family have no need of her. Taboo subjects such as anti-semitism and homosexuality are skirted around rather than addressed directly. The biggest resemblance however is the ending. Proust closes his Recherche with an evening party at which many of the principle characters are seen and where their destinies are finally revealed'with many surprises, and the effects of age and time passing are examined. The Years also ends with an evening party at which all the principle characters gather. We find out what they have all become'there are also some surprises'and Woolf writes some fine paragraphs on ageing. I also noted a comparison between how these two writers gathered their material. Proust was well known for picking up inspiration for his Recherche at his friends' soirées. Woolf did the same thing. Around the time she realised that she shouldn't add any more scenes to The Years but should be preparing it for printing, she wrote in her diary: If I go to Edith Sitwell's cocktail this evening I shall only pick up some exacerbating picture: I shall froth myself into sparkles; and there'll be the whole smoothing and freshening to begin again. She spent so much time smoothing and freshening the manuscript that she grew entirely sick of it. Near the end she wrote: I wonder if anyone has ever suffered so much from a book as I have from The Years. Actually, I think Proust probably suffered more. (hide spoiler)]