Time passes: Experience and expression in ‘The Years’ and ‘To the Lighthouse’

Type :

Book review

Pages :

6 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

08/11/2009

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
Definition and restrictions
The transformation of the present to the past
The final scene and the perspective of an artist
The book To the Lighthouse
1. The fluidity and poetic style
2. The conventionality in the book
3. The entry of the characters into the stream of life
The book The Years
1. The change in the language and form of the text
2. Perspectives of conflicting interpretations of the characters
3. Nicholas reflection during a bombardment
4. The search for truth
Conclusion: Moving through Woolf's prose in the books
Bibliography

Abstract

the present unfolds as I trace my way along the thin black lines laid across the page. Woolf writes; I read. We then assemble these fractured signs, these fleeting moments in our conversations to compose a unified "whole." A scene passes. My eyes discern a pattern and then resume their marked progression, following a clearly defined line across the blank space of the page, "like caravans perpetually marching" (years 3)... "slowly wheeling like the rays of a searchlight the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky" (years 4). But these words and the reality they describe and create are "uncertain" (years 3). the present slips into the past, caught in a torrent of images, of light and sound that draw me deeper within the rhythm of Woolf's prose. And, despite my intended focus- "everybody in the crowded street, it seemed, had some end in view" (years 5) - I am left undefined, without beginning or end.