{"id":85755,"date":"2015-05-14T16:45:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=85755"},"modified":"2015-05-14T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T21:04:23","slug":"she-would-buy-the-flowers-herself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/14\/she-would-buy-the-flowers-herself\/","title":{"rendered":"She Would Buy the Flowers Herself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6A43KJHPl4?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the anniversary of the 1925 publication of <em>Mrs. Dalloway.\u00a0<\/em>The stream-of-consciousness novel has long been considered a modernist classic, perhaps the most accomplished work in Woolf&#8217;s oeuvre\u2014and though its elliptical prose and complex themes render <em>Mrs. Dalloway<\/em> a particular challenge for adaptation, this has naturally not stopped people from attempting to do so, with varying degrees of success.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The above is either the worst or the best such adaptation, depending upon how highly you value things like coherence, tone, and style. It has none of Marleen Gorris\u2019s respectful fidelity, none of Philip Glass\u2019s aggressive atmosphere. Indeed,\u00a0Natalia Povalyaeva\u2019s animated short, <em>Mrs. Dalloway and the Flowers<\/em>, has almost nothing to do with the novel at all. 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