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3.79 AVERAGE
3.79 AVERAGE
reflective
slow-paced
As usual I didn't understand the first part to enjoy the last twos. Difficult book to say the least...
Come al solito non ho capito la prima parte, ma mi sono piaciute le ultime due. Libro difficile a dir poco.
Come al solito non ho capito la prima parte, ma mi sono piaciute le ultime due. Libro difficile a dir poco.
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beautiful. Amazing. Painful to read. I am not a fan of stream of consciousness. Still, I do love Virginia Woolf. I am going to read it again - maybe when I have a whole weekend to do nothing but read it. I think it's that kind of book. Sigh. I feel incredibly stupid now, because I know I should love and understand this book. I was an English major, after all!
emotional
relaxing
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Read only because I had to for a book club and ended up loving! The writing is so accurate to how we think as we go about everyday life. Lovely!
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
There are passages here that speak directly to me, through me, as though the characters (or Virginia Woolf herself) were possessing me. I believe many people will find the same. It’s an unsettling but ultimately mystical, rewarding feeling. Truly a book for the ages, a book that captures the richness of human experience in its most quotidien and most tragic musters. For me, this is one to reread again and again, because it also addresses the artistic process (when asking after the meaning of life, we can find religion or we can find solace in beauty, which is to say artistic creation). Brilliant, difficult, everlasting!
If you've ever wished for time to stop, I suggest you read To The Lighthouse. Mrs. Dalloway was lost on me but I realise that Woolf requires patience and complete concentration and if you allow mind and body to stay still for long enough, the beauty of her prose will reveal itself. Her characters are like portraits that need to be contemplated. Actually, her books are analogous to paintings - every word a brushstroke; and trying to determine what an artist might be thinking when she lets the light fall here and not there, is what Woolf seeks to understand: the process and structure of thought. Woolf deals with the passage of time, loss, the distance between the closest of people and how those divides can be bridged. Her language is lyrical, poetic and profound. She's a genius, I get that now.
Genuinamente extraordinaria. Una novela que redefinió el rumbo de la literatura occidental y consagró a su autora con su estilo intimista, reflexivo y melancólico así también como poético porque si hay algo intrínsecamente ligado a la prosa de Virginia es esa magnánima belleza, a veces angustiosa, a veces rendida, a veces desesperada por hallar sentido pero siempre irrevocablemente bella.
En al faro, la autora explora su propio pasado familiar a la vez que ahonda en algunas de las cuestiones que siempre la inquietaron, el propósito de la vida, la inexorabilidad del paso del tiempo y la inevitabilidad de la muerte. En dos días separados por diez años y la expectativa de una excursión a un faro, presentándonos a una familia y los invitados al hogar de ésta, mediante el excepcional contraste de sus emociones y reflexiones se forja una obra que demanda nuestra atención, pues sus constantes cambios de protagonista pueden resultar difíciles de seguir, y nos ofrece a cambio una de las experiencias literarias más intimistas y ricamente cargadas a las que podemos acceder como lectores.
En al faro, la autora explora su propio pasado familiar a la vez que ahonda en algunas de las cuestiones que siempre la inquietaron, el propósito de la vida, la inexorabilidad del paso del tiempo y la inevitabilidad de la muerte. En dos días separados por diez años y la expectativa de una excursión a un faro, presentándonos a una familia y los invitados al hogar de ésta, mediante el excepcional contraste de sus emociones y reflexiones se forja una obra que demanda nuestra atención, pues sus constantes cambios de protagonista pueden resultar difíciles de seguir, y nos ofrece a cambio una de las experiencias literarias más intimistas y ricamente cargadas a las que podemos acceder como lectores.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes