https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1389161
https://doi.org/10.60056/Lit.2025.35.326–353
Snezhana Doncheva
The article analyzes Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway”, drawing on Roland Barthes’s concepts of the “reality effect” and “déréalité”. It also traces a small part of the history of aesthetic debates about realistic writing and seeks to answer the question of whether modernist literature can be realistic and when this very perspective is hindered.
Keywords: reality effect, déréalité, Virginia Woolf, realism, modernism, the Real
About the author: Snezhana Doncheva is a fourth-year student majoring in Bulgarian Philology at the Faculty of Slavic Studies of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Her interests lie primarily in the fields of literary theory and history, comparative literary studies, and modernist literature.
