Boekbabbel Dalloway Day

On the literary holiday Dalloway Day, fans of Virginia Woolf want to celebrate her life and work and bring them to attention. De Oudergemse fans of Woolf embrace this tradition and hope to put this day on the map in Brussels too! Places are limited, registration is necessary via our website! "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself." This is how the famous novel Mrs. Dalloway van Virginia Woolf begins. On a day in June 1923, Clarissa Dalloway walks through London to buy flowers, because that evening she is giving a party. Septimus Warren Smith, traumatized and confused by the war, spends his day in the park with his wife Lucrezia. The paths of Septimus Smith and Clarissa and her friends will eventually cross. This novel ingeniously weaves present, past and future on one memorable day in June 1923. It is a novel full of memories and reflections on the value of life and the irreversibility of our choices.