Gita Al Faro by Virginia Woolf
Set largely on a windswept Scottish island, the novel follows a family and their guests across years as intimate interior monologues reveal shifting relationships, private anxieties, and the pull between domestic care and artistic independence; after a luminous opening focused on a matriarch’s warmth and influence, an intervening section records the ravages of time and war on the empty house, and a final boat journey to the lighthouse brings characters face to face with loss, gender expectations, and the consolations of memory and art, culminating in an artist’s small triumph that affirms perception against impermanence.
- Published
- 1927
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 200-250 pages
- Original Language
- English
- Avg User Rating
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(3.0)
- Alternate Titles
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- Al faro
- Gita al faro
- To the Lighthouse
- Vers le phare
- Zum Leuchtturm
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