To the Lighthouse Family, Memory, and the Passage of Time
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Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2026
Verlag
Curated Collection PublishingSeitenzahl
220
Maße (L/B/H)
22,2/14,5/1,7 cm
Gewicht
447 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798182723367
At the Ramsays' summer house in the Hebrides, a promised trip to the lighthouse becomes the focus of hope, disappointment, and family tension. Young James Ramsay longs to make the journey, but his father's insistence on bad weather threatens the plan. Around them, children and guests move through meals, conversations, private resentments, and moments of harmony, while Mrs. Ramsay tries to draw the household together through sympathy, beauty, and force of will. Among the guests is Lily Briscoe, a painter struggling to complete a canvas and defend her artistic vision against the judgment that women cannot paint or write. As Lily watches the Ramsays, she confronts the difficulty of understanding another person. Mr. Ramsay demands reassurance; Mrs. Ramsay appears to embody warmth and coherence; yet each consciousness remains partly hidden, even from those it loves. Then the novel's center shifts. In 'Time Passes,' years move through the empty house with startling speed. Weather, darkness, dust, war, and death alter what once seemed permanent. Human losses enter almost parenthetically, while abandoned rooms become witnesses to history. When surviving members of the family return, the long-delayed lighthouse journey and Lily's unfinished painting offer different ways of facing the past. First published in 1927, To the Lighthouse is a defining achievement of literary modernism. Virginia Woolf replaces conventional plot with patterns of perception, memory, image, and rhythm, moving among the minds of her characters. The three-part structure transforms a family holiday into an examination of time: how a moment can contain a life, how absence reshapes memory, and how art may give form to what cannot be restored. Intimate yet expansive, To the Lighthouse is about love and the limits of knowledge, marriage and solitude, grief and endurance. Its emotional power lies not in resolving these tensions but in revealing the fragile moments when people, separated by consciousness and time, briefly achieve connection.
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