by Virginia Woolf
Excerpts from the novel selected and presented by Louis MacNeice
The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It is written, except for short choral interludes, entirely in the first person--or rather in six first persons. Three men and three women are followed from childhood to late middle age through a series of soliloquies. There is a seventh character, Percival, who never speaks but serves as a focal point.
During the interval (7.0-7.10 app.):
Three-part Fantasias (Purcell) played by the Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis on gramophone records