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To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centers on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extending the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, the plot of To the Lighthouse is secondary to its philosophical introspection. Cited as a key example of the literary technique of multiple focalization, the novel includes little dialogue and almost no action; most of it is written as thoughts and observations. The novel recalls childhood emotions and highlights adult relation­ships. Among the book’s many tropes and themes are those of loss, subjectivity, the nature of art and the problem of perception. In 1998, the Modern Library named To the Lighthouse No. 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, the novel was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923.

Mrs Ramsey has gathered her friends and family around her in the family's summer house on the Isle of Skye. As the children play and the adults paint, talk and think, the relationships between them develop and change.Can true happiness ever be achieved or is it destined to exist only as a poignant memory?

Figura destacada del llamado «Grupo de Bloomsbury», Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) fue autora de una serie de relatos que la sitúan en la vanguardia del movimiento renovador de las técnicas narrativas que buscó en la profundización del análisis de la conciencia el reflejo de una realidad más auténtica y esencial. Fue en la amalgama de sentimientos, pensamientos y emociones que es la subjetividad donde Woolf encontró el material apropiado para una narrativa que contribuyó a forjar la sensibilidad contemporánea. Publicada en 1925, La señora Dalloway relata un día en la vida de una mujer de la clase alta londinense desde el punto de vista de una conciencia que experimenta con plena intensidad cada instante vivido, en el que se condensan el pasado, el entorno y el presente.