![]() Forster called To the Lighthouse “a novel in sonata form”-as it is split up into three sections-movements, as it were-so shall this playlist be. The thing I always say about To the Lighthouse to those who haven’t read it is that it’s the closest a novel has ever come to feeling like direct experience for me. That is, it feels like a reflection of consciousness as opposed to something external to it, which also seems to me to be a quality of (good) music. But below, I have given my impressions of the novel in musical, or rather playlist, form-a sort of reverse-engineering of Woolf’s own process. Woolf was an avid music fan, of course, and I won’t venture to guess what she was actually listening to-in her head in her room-when she was writing her masterpiece To the Lighthouse. ![]() It shows-her work isn’t necessarily what I’d call musical, but it is rhythmic, both formally and thematically, indicative of an internal melody. “I think of all my books as music before I write them,” Virginia Woolf once said. ![]()
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