The Waves is similarly qua its form an experimental piece of fiction that is following the rhythm of the sea rather than a traditional plot structure. Bernard’s problem with representation is also Woolf’s problem. Instead Bernard attempts a different mode of narration in order to communicate and grasp his new experience of life. This new experience of time results in Bernard losing his urge to describe the world. Time no longer indicates the possibility of the future, but rather the missed possibilities of the past. Bernard, one of the novel’s speakers, has an epiphany while shaving as a middle-aged man. She does so both on the level of content and form.
Knowledge and Experience in Virginia Woolf's The Waves: an exploration of epistemology at stake in modernist fiction Research master thesis | Literary Studies (research) (MA) In the The Waves (1931) Virginia Woolf is approaching the possibilities of true knowledge in fiction.
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