By Julio Rodríguez Puértolas (Translator)

Mrs. Dalloway recounts an ordinary day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a lady married to a Conservative MP and mother of a teenage girl. The story begins one sunny morning in June 1923, with a walk by Clarissa through central London, the great setting of the novel, and ends that same night, when the guests at their party begin to leave the Dalloway house. Although in the course of the day a tragic event happens: the suicide of a young man who returns from the war, the remarkable thing about the story is not that episode, nor the small events and memories that compose it, but that all of it is narrated from the consciousness of the characters and the analysis of everything that goes through their minds before acting.

Only after the publication of Mrs. Dalloway did critics begin to praise Virginia Woolf's literary originality, her technical mastery and her experimental zeal, which introduced into novelistic prose a style and images hitherto more typical of poetry.