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-1970s Glam Rock singer Steve Harley, wrote “riding the waves” inspired by Virgina Woolf;
-Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi composed his first piano album, Le Onde, based on the novel.

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-The difficulty of assigning genre to this novel is complicated by the fact that The Waves blurs distinctions between prose and poetry;
-Woolf called it not a novel but a "playpoem";
-The book similarly breaks down boundaries between people, and Woolf herself wrote in her Diary that the six were not meant to be separate "characters".
The book explores the role of the "ethos of male education" in shaping public life, and includes scenes of some of the characters experiencing bullying during their first days at school.

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"The great wave" by Katsushika Hokusai, 1831

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The novel follows it's six narrators from childhood through adulthood:
-Bernard is a story-teller, always seeking some elusive phrase;
-Louis is an outsider who seeks acceptance and success;
-Neville seeks out a series of men, each of whom becomes the present object of his abstract love;
-Jinny is a fashionable woman whose world view corresponds to her physical beauty;
-Susan ran away from the city, preferring the countryside, where she fights with the doubts of motherhood;
-Rhoda is full of anxiety and depression, always rejecting and indicting human compromise, always seeking out solitude;
-Percival is the esteemed hero of the other six. He dies midway through the novel, while engaged on an imperialist quest in India. Percival never speaks on his own but readers learn about him in detail as the other six characters repeatedly describe and reflect on him.

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"The Waves" is a novel written by Virginia Wolf and is it regarded as one of her most difficult works.
This story consist in soliloques (a monologue adressed to oneself) spoken mainly by six characters + another character that never speaks in his own voice.

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In this story the author explores concepts of individuality, self and community.

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https://youtu.be/pNRBCo6fJpY

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https://youtu.be/P_tmBa1fQmo