(via Blogging Woolf) In conjunction with their new issue, The F Word, Granta published Helen Dumore's introduction to a new edition of To the Lighthouse online today. Funny that despite thinking that my head stores an exhaustive amount of information on the book already, I could not resist clicking over. The point most comfortable in my head:
"In To the Lighthouse Woolf has returned again and again to the destructive power of the male upon the creativity of the female. ‘Women can’t paint, women can’t write,’ says Charles Tansley, and Lily Briscoe burns with the same rage and humiliation that James feels when told that he cannot go to the lighthouse. But Woolf seems to argue, at the end of the novel, that there is something beyond this agonizing fact of destruction, which is the saving androgyny of creation itself."