The German critic Erich Auerbach seems to have been the first to recognize Woolf as a writer in the epic tradition, not merely a great novelist. It is pretentious.” A “first-rate writer,” unlike Joyce, “respects writing too much to be tricky startling doing stunts.” Joyce titled his book Ulysses, not Mr. “Genius it has,” she wrote in her diary about Ulysses, but added, “It is brackish. She modeled the book in part on Ulysses, as Joyce modeled his on the Odyssey, but her characters do not symbolize anything larger than themselves.
Virginia Woolf first planned to call it The Hours but settled on a title consistent with its story about unimportant people on an ordinary London day. Dalloway is a book that makes modest claims for itself.
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