One can’t know, of course, if Woolf’s “The Hours” would have been a lesser novel than her Mrs. Dalloway that has become a cornerstone of 20th-century literature. Had Woolf completed a novel called “The Hours,” it would not have been the Mrs. Woolf’s new title for her novel-in-progress implied that she’d decided, relatively early on, that she was not going to write, not exactly, the book she’d initially set out to write. Writers often change the titles of their books, often more than once, as they write them, and sometimes the reconsidering of a title reflects a deeper shift in the evolving nature of the book itself. But, as far as I can tell, novelists rarely if ever solve mysteries novelists can only hope to illuminate and deepen essential human enigmas and to chart the points at which relatively simple questions blossom out into profound ones. I hope no one will be disappointed to hear that, in my own novel, I don’t solve that particular mystery.
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