ROMANCE AND MEMORY: PICTURES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN A TOUR OF THE LIGHTHOUSE BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

Abstract

Present study has since objective presents the effects of the first world war in the novel To the lighthouse, of Virginia Woolf, through theoreticians who discuss the relation of the memory, history and literature, since it is the case of Kramer, Halbwachs, Ricceur, Heller, Bosi, Lima, Benjamin, among others. It costs standing out that, in to the lighthouse, the English definite writer, through inner monologues, the tensions and destruction provoked by the war, besides carrying out several investigations as to the humanity and his values. The First World War would become a factor of crisis in the context of the man of the century XX, since the same thing that brought innovations into effect you in knew; there was the same thing what to destroy his similar for interest and power. Virginia Woolf imbued with this critical perspective, deconstructs the figure of the traditional man and it presents a new one to be whose representation is broken up and chaotic.