Finished reading on: December 24, 2008
To the Lighthouse
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A plotless narrative, focused on the poetic representation (albeit in prose) of the characters’ perceptions.
The latter do not take on a «life of their own», but rather fulfill a symbolic function of social roles and/or psychological attitudes.
While reminiscent of Proust, the narrative takes on an elegiac form that makes it, on the whole, tedious.
The individual passages, on the other hand, exhibit an almost musical rhythm (which takes precedence over the content?), even though the sentence structure is highly complex and in certain cases convoluted.