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Maurice A. Géracht, « Representing Time and the Narrative Structure of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse », Interfaces. Image-Texte-Langage (documents), ID : 10.3406/inter.2002.1226
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«Time Passes», Part II of To the Lighthouse, not only separates and binds Part I, «The Window», to Part III, «The Lighthouse», it centers time, what is the controlling factor of novel, and it informs its narrative structure, the relation of «this to that». Woolf connects discreet, concomitant, and isolated narrative spaces (separate «masses» of time) within a contiguous intact narrative continuum. She relates these to those narrative fragments of internal moments, relates this to that external event, and all of them to each other. Her narrative structure is a construction which emphasizes a complex of multiple, shifting, conceptual time relationships rather than fixed linear chronology.