The Years is a most controversial novel among Virginia Woolf`s works. She has said that this work is combining the novel of fact with the novel of vision. Although the work has the surface of the realistic novel, it doesn`t have any single prominent character, nor does it follow any single narrative. Despite containing so many realistic conversations, it is full of haphazard sensational images. On the level of form and content, the novel is fragmentary without any recognizable story or conclusive pattern of meaning. Many critics regard the work as a failure. The disjointedness of the novel, however, is Woolf`s new narrative form: she is weaving a continuity out of discontinuous binary opposites. In the novel, interludes about the seasons always preface the main narrative. Still, they do not seem to signify anything in the following narrative. But it is here that Woolf shows clearly her new conception of continuity. The two contrary worlds are created simultaneously by their difference from each other, but are connected by the differential system which posits them as opposites first of all, and they comprise the whole world as such. In the narrative of the novel, various layers are contrasted such as within and without the house, surface actions and inside thoughts and feelings, etc. Since these are connected within the representational system of language that defines them as opposites, Woolf does not need to create a unity within them. In her later works, the Woolfian narrator stops weaving fragmentary narratives into any possible whole. Many critics insist that this shows her frustrated vision confronting personal and historical disasters. But this merely displays her new conception of continuity that makes the reader aware of the common life of language within and beyond us.