Solitude in Selected Novels by Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift
Solitude in Selected Novels by Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis of the theme of solitude, which is present in the novels written by Virginia Woolf and Graham Swift. This theme unites the two authors’ novels and explains the way they create the lyrical type of novel, by starting out with intertextual references to the British Romantic poets, where loneliness is a common theme. In order to illustrate the theme of solitude, a selection of moments and characters’ situations will be analyzed in the present paper, according to the features that Modernism and Postmodernism have in common. The theme of loneliness adds to the features of previous movements used in Modernist and Postmodernist novels, which together create the lyrical novel. The lyrical novel shows the same reconciliation of contradictions which was found in Romantic poetry. Characters experience contradictory feelings and thoughts regarding various aspects of their lives, and all of them are united by being expressed in the lyrical novel.

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