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ABSTRACT
The novel The Hours by Michael Cunningham, adapted to the cinema with the same title, by
Stephen Daldry, illustrates so well a contemporary tendency of an artistic creation in which a
text is constructed from other famous texts onwards, questioning aspects of origin, as well as
considering some characteristics which include fragmentation and parody. The aim of this
research is to analyze both the novel and the filme As Horas, focusing the dizzy space of the
feminine subjectivity; the one which presents a fragmented and dislocated subject of its
historical role. As part of this academic journey, it was necessary to dive into sub­itens such
as: the inadequacy of women when facing everyday life and domesticity; their choices, and
feelings of unaccomplishments. Thus, the present work also views to read The Hours not only
as a re­writing of Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf), but also as a gesture in the direction of a
post­modern aesthetic impulse. Besides, it was given an approach to contemporary women, to
whom new possibilities of articulations were possible to achieve, taking the echo of the
characters throughout the decades into consideration, as well as the resonances of new
subjects, which turns out to be a new Mrs. Dalloway ­ the one who transcends the pages. In
order to create the moment, a new vision of this so­ called theme for Woolf is urged: An
ordinary day in a woman´s life.
Key words: Post­Modern Fiction & Cinema. Dialogue & Intertextuality, Feminine
Subjectivity: Domesticity & Inadequacy, and Virginia Woolf.