Woolf, Mrs Dalloway és Az órák: megsokszorozott szövegközi játékok
Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, and The Hours: Intertextual Games Multiplied

Summary/Abstract: Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours (1998) and Stephen Daldry’s film adaptation (2002) have had a fundamental effect on our image of Virginia Woolf because they make Woolf’s modernist texts substantially more accessible. After a brief overview of some elements of Virginia Woolf’s reception history, the article analyses the narrative, symbolical and plot elements of Mrs. Dalloway that are evoked and re-interpreted in Cunningham’s novel and Daldry’s film. The interpretation of Cunningham’s novel points out the similarities with, and differences from Woolf’s narrative technique, the interrelationships between the three plotlines, their cultural background and further intertexts. Regarding Daldry’s text, in turn, as a multiple intertextual palimpsest, the author argues that the editing technique of Daldry’s film (the three closely knitted plot lines) make this film adaptation much more “Woolfian” than Cunningham’s novel is.

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