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Al faro” es un cuadro que la autora va levantando ante nosotros pincelada a pincelada. Es un momento fijado para siempre en el que los colores aparecen mezclados, donde nada es del todo preciso, donde hasta los objetos y los paisajes son mostrados desde la sensibilidad de cada uno de los personajes, a través de sus sentimientos, de sus emociones, de sus ideas, de sus recuerdos, de sus evocaciones. Nada ocurre fuera de la mente de estos seres, no hay acontecimientos, no hay consumación ni superación de deseos, anhelos, esperanzas, miedos, todo queda reflejado y fijado en el cuadro en una escena total no más importante que cada una de sus partes. What follows are tales of love and heartbreak. Despite the heartbreak and sadness, this story is so heartwarming, full of magic and supernatural elements. The first half of the book is pretty much what you’d expect from a sweet YA romance with a touch of mystery. And then, I had another go at reading it, quite by accident, because I had spare time in a boring place and a copy of the book happened to be on the table.
To The Lighthouse was my first exposure to Virginia Woolf. I was working on a production of Edward Albee's Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf& I thought I should read something by Woolf. For no particular reason I chose To The Lighthouse. I remember enjoying it, being fascinated by it, but not really understanding what I'd read. They travelled to Seabrook, only to spend one night, but circumstances changed. The morning after they arrived, Amy's father disappeared. Amy met Ryan who lived on a nearby ranch. After spending some time together, they end up trying the discover the secret of the mysterious lighthouse. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1927) First US edition; 4000 copies initially with at least five reprints in the same year. As you all know, fantasy is not my genre, but this story, with a touch of magic, was absolutely PERFECT for me.
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Just now and again there are some disappointments in the use of what feelt like cliched dialogue but other times the telling was full of insight and particularly realistic to that between a grieving teen and her somewhat absent father. Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse is an innovative piece of writing that left me feeling empty, neither happy nor sad, just blank and detached from the book itself.
There were parts I really liked about The Lighthouse and parts that made me shake my head in disgust. I did enjoy the ending. Amy’s dialogue seemed to me very childish in parts. It did not sound like the way an eighteen year old woman would talk. I was not a big fan of the supernatural elements either. Overall, I was more disappointed in The Lighthouse than thrilled with it. I also disliked the narrator. I really can't understand why there would be a male narrator for a book mostly told by a teenage girl. This really put me of! I need a print copy of this book in my life. A copy that’s as stunning and gorgeous as the story inside it. One that’s displayed where I’ll always see it staring at me telling me there’s hope, there’s magical and mystical, there’s love. One that’s in view to always remind me not to give up and to always see that the sweetest simplest things in life can become if I simply and wholeheartedly choose to believe……… I’m so thankful I got to read his story. At this point I’m typing ramblings, as usual, but this is different. Far different than any other experience I’ve been with in a work of fiction. The second section To The Lighthouse is brilliant. Time indeed does pass ~~ things have changed. We learn what has happened to the Ramsay family over the past 10 years. The house stands empty, abandoned by the family these past 10 years for reasons you must discover on your own. What fascinates me most about Time Passes is how the house becomes a character in its own right ~~ the house is a living thing.This is one of those rare books that gives you totally different reading experiences when you read it in different phases of your life. Mrs. Ramsay and her family's story is wonderfully depicted through the beauty of surrealism and the depth of philosophy. Only a writer on the top of their craft can create something so magnificent from the simple things in life like a family holiday. The character building, precise perspective-shifting are all done brilliantly. Ms. Woolf's views on men, women, friendship, love, marriage, children, motherhood, and the poetry of life will all make you think deeply about the hidden complexities of this world. Her use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device is impeccable. This book can be incontrovertibly called a true masterpiece. This is a novel that you have to grow into, but when you do, it shines brightly in the dark waters and soothes the nerves of a grown-up woman who has unfortunately learned what it means to hear the echo "can't write, can't paint", who has learned to feel the presence of patriarchal attention and who has learned to know its effect on the surrounding. Thank you to NetGalley and Beacon Press for a free advanced review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Step 1. Choose one of her novels and start reading. No procrastination for years and years. I added To The Lighthouse to my shelves in 2014 and I could not gathered the courage to start the novel until now. What changed? A discussion about her genius on Zoom. Step 5 and the most important one. Let it Go as the famous song says. You might keep asking yourself, as all the characters of the novel do, „What it all means”. Don’t. Just let the writing flow, envelope your senses and seduce you. Let go of the need for control and to be able to understand everything. I understood more and followed better when I stopped fighting.The Lighthouse is a slow build adult fiction with hints of romance and mystery. But it is so much more and I can’t say a great deal more without giving away the story. I can say that I was taken away by the plot and was very moved by the storyline.
Welty, Eudora (1981). Forward to To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. New York: Harvest. pp.vii–xii. I fell in love with the characters, I swooned over the connection between the MC (Amy) and Ryan. Their connection was sweet, passionate, tender, solid, at moments sad, fun and ‘real’.I will say that the one silver lining about it that kept me interested in it is that one of the main characters is named Minta. I have a friend with the same name and always thought it was an unusual name that her parents made up. But, when I asked her, not only did her parents not make up the name, they didn’t get it from this book, either! So, just hearing her name frequently as the book went along kept me somewhat engaged. Woolf, Virginia (1980). Bell, Anne Olivier; McNeillie, Andrew (eds.). The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1925–1930. London: Hogarth. ISBN 0-7012-0466-4. To The Lighthouse is divided into three sections, The Window, Time Passes, and The Lighthouse. The first section portrays the tensions of her family's holiday ~~ the Ramsays have been joined by a group of friends and colleagues. A planned journey to the fabled lighthouse lies at the center of section one. A lot has been written about the significance of the Lighthouse. Basically, its light, seen from afar at night, is a magical presence; seen close up in the light of day it is a prosaic thing without wonder. In that sense it’s like Gatsby’s green light. But whereas Fitzgerald chose to depict this light as essentially illusory, albeit with a high inspirational charge, Woolf perhaps sees that light as a representation of those heightened moments of sensibility, or “moments of being” as she called them, when, for a fleeting moment, we carry a candle into the dark and catch sight of a vision informed by understanding, wholeness, an enduring significance. stars Thanks to BookBrowse and Beacon Press Limited for allowing me to read and review this ARC. Publishes October 26, 2021
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