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內容簡介 國際知名作家瑪格麗特‧愛特伍：在許多閱讀經驗中，有些書就是得等到讀者準備好了，一切才會水到渠成！這需要運氣，而我很幸運地讀了《燈塔行》！文學史上的傳奇作家，塑造文學史的經典之作現代主義小說開創性之經典作品，談婚姻、藝術，談人生、死亡……出版91周年，雙面海報燙銀書衣典藏紀念版，偉大女作家維吉尼亞‧吳爾芙《燈塔行》：生命的意義是什麼？一個簡單的問題；一個容易隨著歲月迫近人的問題。偉大的啟示從沒有來到。倒是有每日小小的奇蹟、闡釋，黑暗中火柴突然地劃亮；這兒就有一個。「為什麼我會對這故事感到難以置信且無可救藥的浪漫？我想是因為過往的記憶；我看到孩子們在花園裡奔跑……夜晚的海洋……四十年的生活，所有這一切都建立在這基礎之上，也時常被回憶滲透：太多太多的一切，我永遠無法解釋。 」－－維吉尼亞‧吳爾芙《燈塔行》可說是吳爾芙自傳色彩極為濃厚的小說，利用獨特的意識流技法，探索了角色的內在思維，並描繪了一個瞬息萬變的時代社會。旨在探討婚姻、感知，記憶和時間消逝之題。小說中的雷姆塞先生與雷姆塞太太脫胎於吳爾芙的父母。吳爾芙的父親在聖艾芙斯購置了一棟別墅，每年夏天前往度假，直到她母親過世。所以吳爾芙在十三歲前每年都度過一段歡樂的假期，也在她心中留下深刻的印象。與小說中一樣，別墅旁邊就是海灣，海中小島也真的有一座燈塔。吳爾芙十歲時編過一個故事，就是《燈塔行》的雛形。小說第一部分〈窗〉精確刻畫日常生活中夫妻婚姻間存在之衝突與心靈和諧的狀態。第二部分〈歲月流逝〉以快速筆調描寫十年之變遷，人事已非。第三部分〈燈塔〉敘述喪偶之雷姆塞先生與其子女完成其妻生前未竟的燈塔之行。全書文辭精鍊，象徵意味濃厚，並充滿吳爾芙揮之不去的女性意識關懷。本中文書介出自《燈塔行》聯經出版事業股份有限公司出版A pioneering work of modernist fiction, using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella McNichol, with an introduction and notes by Hermione Lee.To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. With a psychologically introspective mode, the use of memory, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group', an informal collective of artists and writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay.If you enjoyed To the Lighthouse, you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, also available in Penguin Classics.'Bears endless re-reading ... the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb and flow'Rachel Billington"
