By Virginia Woolf
Una de las obras más autobiográficas de Virginia Woolf.
Al faro es una de las obras cumbre de los angeles literatura del siglo XX. Basada en los angeles propia infancia de los angeles autora, l. a. novela cuenta l. a. historia de l. a. familia Ramsay en l. a. isla escocesa de Skye en el período de entreguerras. El rumor del mar, l. a. presencia insomne del faro, los angeles guerra, l. a. muerte, el erotismo o el transcurso del tiempo se entreveran en los angeles larga conversación de los angeles novela formando un oleaje de símbolos, palabras e imágenes.
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«Una de las inteligencias e imaginaciones más delicadas que ahora ensayan felices experimentos con los angeles novela inglesa.»
Jorge Luis Borges
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I would also like to thank Dan Franklin, Pascal Cariss and Jason Arthur at Jonathan Cape. Pieces in this book were compiled by Professor James Diedrick. I gratefully salute his skill and acuity. R. Leavis and Lionel Trilling, and on lesser figures like Ian Robinson and Denis Donoghue). 'Literature and society' was, at one time, a phrase so much on everyone's lips that it earned itself an abbreviation: Lit & Soc. And Lit & Soc, I seemed to remember, had been for me a long-running enthusiasm. But when I leafed through the massed manuscripts I found only a handful of essays, all of them written, rather ominously, in the early Seventies (when I was in my early twenties).
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