The Lighthouse is one of Virginia Woolf's most accomplished novels, displaying with unprecedented intensity the lasting traces left by the past on memory.

The Lighthouse, which has an autobiographical dimension as it bears traces of Virginia Woolf's memories of her childhood vacations with her family in St. Ives-Cornwall and similarities with family members, takes its name from the desire of James, the youngest member of the family of eight children, to visit a lighthouse. Although the peaceful days of the Ramsay family are left behind with the death of the children in the war and the sudden death of the mother, the family's desire to visit the lighthouse is revived with the arrival of the painter Lily Briscoe and the poet Carmichael. The Lighthouse is one of the richest examples of the modernist novel, engraving unforgettable characters such as Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe and Augustus Carmichael into the history of literature.

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