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 trusmis | Aug 12, 2024 |   Nicole Kidman provides a fine reading, with a certain passivity that channels the Victorian sensibilities that are an ever-present undercurrent in the book and are perhaps to blame for the Ramsay's inability to truly communicate with each other. I think I would have enjoyed it more in print, and may read it later on in that format. That said, Woolf's language was poetry and Kidman's fluid reading really brought that out. I try not to read too much about a book before I read the actual book, because I feel it biases whatever relationship I'm going to establish with the book. So while I did not know what to expect, and I can't say I'd like to listen to a lot of books with this same approach, Woolf's writing and insights (and occasional razor-sharp wit) were enough to pull me through to the end. (  ) rebcamuse | Aug 5, 2024 |  ) antoni4040 | May 14, 2024 | ) therebelprince | Apr 21, 2024 | ) rocketshackgirl | Mar 13, 2024 |
 How was it that, this time, everything in the book fell so completely into place? How could I have missed it - above all, the patterns, the artistry - the first time through? How could I have missed the resonance of Mr Ramsay's Tennyson quotation, coming as it does like a prophecy of the first world war? How could I not have grasped that the person painting and the one writing were in effect the same? ("Women can't write, women can't paint..." ) And the way time passes over everything like a cloud, and solid objects flicker and dissolve? And the way Lily's picture of Mrs Ramsay - incomplete, insufficient, doomed to be stuck in an attic - becomes, as she adds the one line that ties it all together at the end, the book we've just read?  "To the Lighthouse" has not the formal perfection, the cohesiveness, the intense vividness of characterization that belong to "Mrs. Dalloway." It has particles of failure in it. It is inferior to "Mrs. Dalloway" in the degree to which its aims are achieved; it is superior in the magnitude of the aims themselves. For in its portrayal of life that is less orderly, more complex and so much doomed to frustration, it strikes a more important note, and it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf's work. Belongs to Publisher SeriesAldina (11) Biblioteca Folha (9) — 31 more Everyman's Library (949) Gallimard, Folio (2816) Gallimard, Folio Classique (2816) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) Penguin Modern Classics (2165) Rainbow pocketboeken (52) La temerària (10) A tot vent (216) 池澤夏樹個人編集 世界文学全集 (2-1) Is contained inHas the adaptationHas as a studyThe Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life by Edward Mendelson Has as a commentary on the textHas as a student's study guideAwardsNotable Lists
The Ramsay family is on holiday on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. As the family and their guests decide on whether or not to visit a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf spins a tale that focuses on the intricate web of family life and the conflict that occurs between genders. No library descriptions found. 
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Practicamente no hay trama, lo que leemos son los pensamientos de todos los personajes del libro.
Por ejemplo hay un capitulo donde los personajes estan cenando, saltaremos de cabeza en cabeza mientras comen y hablan. Imaginate como seria poder hacer esto en la vida real, que experiencia poder ver el mundo desde dentro de cada una de las cabezas sus opiniones de los demas mientras la conversacion se desarrolla. Seria confuso pero se aprenderia mucho sobre la naturaleza humana.
Este libro te da esta experiencia. (