Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and literary critic, the leading figure of the modernist literature of the first half of the twentieth century. She also was part of a group of English intellectuals, writers, and artists, graduates of Cambridge, called the Bloomsbury group. The novel «The Waves» considered by many as a masterpiece. In a poetic form of soliloquies, it tells the stories of six children, Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, from infancy to death. They all unite around the figure of a seventh character, Percival, who never speaks in his voice. Allusive and mysterious, this novel explores the concepts of individuality and community.