To the Lighthouse
- Auteur: Virginia Woolf (Engeland)
- Soort boek: Engelse roman uit 1927
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Penguin
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: Naar de vuurtoren
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse recensie, review en informatie
- “Radiant as [To the Lighthouse] is in its beauty, there could never be a mistake about it: here is a novel to the last degree severe and uncompromising. I think that beyond being about the very nature of reality, it is itself a vision of reality.” (Eudora Welty)
- “To the Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time.” (Margaret Drabble)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 1927 van de Engelse schrijfster Virginia Woolf
“The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening.”
To the Lighthouseis at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and 
childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.
Virginia Woolf, born on 25 January 1882 in London, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob’s Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One’s Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in East Sussex on 28 March 1941, only 41 years of age.