‘To the Lighthouse’: Essential Desolation
An ambivalent reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’ reveals its hypnotic and devastating power, where inner vision and sensory experience replace conventional plot.
An ambivalent reading of ‘To the Lighthouse’ reveals its hypnotic and devastating power, where inner vision and sensory experience replace conventional plot.
A diary-novel that, with nonchalant brilliance, blends the trivial and the profound, challenging literary conventions while reflecting daily life and the reader’s condition.
If everyone is talking about Vargas Llosa, about his legacy, recalling how and when they read his books, and also bringing up his miseries, it is because someone truly important has left us.