On 19 May 2026 dr hab. Dominika Buchowska-Greaves from the Department of English and Irish Literature and Literary Linguistics delivered a guest lecture “Virginia Woolf’s The Waves: Identity, Time, and the Power of Language” at the Lekarski Klub Książki of the Wielkopolska Izba Lekarska in Poznań.
The lecture explored the unique nature of Virginia Woolf’s writing and introduced participants to the world of modernist literature and the extraordinary narrative structure of The Waves.
One of the most challenging and poetic works of modernism, The Waves presents the intertwined lives of six characters through their interior monologues, almost entirely devoid of a traditional plot. The recurring motif of waves becomes a metaphor for human experience and the relentless passage of time. The lecture familiarised participants with both the innovative form of the novel and its reflections on identity, transience, and the power of language and consciousness.
