VIRGINIA WOOLF’S MRS. DALLOWAY AND HER PARTY: HOW WOOLF’S SHORT STORIES RELATE TO HER NOVEL

Virginia Woolf is well-known as a great novelist, but her short stories are often overlooked by both critics and wider readership. We believe that Woolf’s novels and her minor prose should be analyzed in close connection. When you start treating her minor prose as an essential part of her writing without disregarding it as less significant compared to Woolf’s novels, you get a better understanding of her writing techniques and her development as an artist. This article dwells on the connection that exists between Virginia Woolf’s short stories and her novels, in particular a set of seven short stories that were published under the title “Mrs. Dalloway’s Party”. Woolf created this sequence of short stories when she was experimenting with new narration techniques. This article pays close attention to the poetics of separate short stories of this collection. There has been no in-depth research devoted to this topic in Ukraine.