Coming Home with Virginia: A Loving Reading of the Novel “To the Lighthouse”
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Coming Home with Virginia: A Loving Reading of the Novel “To the Lighthouse” . Out of my reading of the novel To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf and my impressions of and affections for her and her work, accumulated over years of reading and admiration for Virginia, I develop a reflection upon the author ́s fidelity to her mother tongue. This fidelity, which appears in both the subject matter and the aesthetics of her work, allows her to recover her birthplace through the recognition that her poetry comes exactly from her mother, at the same time as addressing the paradoxes and pains of that relationship. Virginia ́s narrative choices show an extreme lucidity on feeding the idea that it is the relationships between women which allow for the overcoming of the violent male rupture of the bonds between women, reweaving the tapestry of our primordial and original affections
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2023-04-03
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