Hours of Insight (The Hours - Michael Cunningham)

Member Name: Biljana

Product:	The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Date:	29/04/03 (369 review reads)
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Advantages: moments of epiphany

Disadvantages: none

I strongly recommend this book because the questions it poses and tries to answer are indeed the crucial questions in life: the meaning of life and death, the impact of other people's lives on ours. Cunningham draws on the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf, uses its characters, but only to pass his message that whatever our life might be like, we still cherish those fleeting moments of happiness, and we hope for more." Heaven only knows why we love it so". And, perhaps, the whole wisdom is in fully experiencing those moments of feeling at one with the world around us, in embracing those moments" an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we've ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult." "The Hours" is the title of the novel, and it is used because the central metaphor here is that of time, time universal, and at the same time the personal experience of time. Ours are those hours when we feel most intensely, and that is all we can hope for.

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