To The Lighthouse
"A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again." -- Greta Gerwig
The authorized, original edition of one of the great literary masterpieces of the twentieth century: a miraculous novel of family, love, war, and mortality, with a foreword from Eudora Welty.
From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and conflict between men and women.
To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of the Ramsay family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. There's the serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, their eight children, and assorted holiday guests. With the lighthouse excursion postponed, Woolf shows the small joys and quiet tragedies of everyday life that seemingly could go on forever.
But as time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and together, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph--the human capacity for change.
A moving portrait in miniature of family life, To the Lighthouse also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other.
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Interesting commentary of how men/women view each other I guess.
I can identify with Mrs. Ramsey in this beautiful novel. She knows how a little thing like going to the lighthouse will be forever impressed upon her small son. While she has to tread carefully through the varying emotions of her husband, she is powerless to change the outcome.
Stepping into a Virgina Woolf novel is like looking at daily life under a microscope. She magnifies the smallest moments and makes them monumental. Her language is fluid and striking, and her characters are flawed and identifiable. However, I can only scratch the surface. There are layers and depths that could only be discovered after serious ruminating and multiple reads.
virginia woolf is very good at describing and capturing parts of life that are so quotidian it’s hard to remember them, but when you read about it, you feel very seen!
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