A film specialist, Muriel contributes to the Times Literary Supplement and to cultural programmes on BBC Radio 4. Muriel Zagha is a French writer and broadcaster who lives in London. There’s insight into the world of childhood thought and emotion, and a variety of views of adult cares and perceptions. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book about how people think and feel and relate. The english version of this episode is read by Muriel Zagha. To The Lighthouse Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. She received the Deux Magots Prize in 2018 for her book Les Vacances. and has translated works by Edith Wharton and Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Summary available on the publisher’s website.Ĭomparative Literature professor in Caen, France, Julie Wolkenstein has published 8 books with the publishing house P.O.L. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Penguin Books, 2019 The novel’s use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of all that had gone before.” “ To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the shadow of war, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.For the sixth episode of Women House, Julie Wolkenstein has chosen excerpts of To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
"The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. More deeply, it is about the passage of time: the fading of things, people, relationships the gap between life and art. It is about Mrs Ramsay, the beautiful, enigmatic matriarch with her eight children, Mr Ramsay, her volatile "brilliant" husband, and the friends, acquaintances and servants who gather at the summerhouse. To the Lighthouse begins with a family – the Ramsays – and a summer spent on the Isle of Skye before the start of the First World War. "Something about a wolf?" My boyfriend would later chide me. "How could you have missed it?" They shook their heads. Meanwhile, my boyfriend (a champion athlete) was bowling his way to victory. I was a teenager, engrossed in To the Lighthouse, lying under a tree at a cricket match.
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