Visual Orders and Acoustic Deviations of the Landscape: A Dialogue between José Donoso’s Coronación and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

Abstract

This study examines landscape and visual perspectives that ensue from portraits in Virginia Woolf’s 1927 To the Lighthouse and José Donoso’s 1957 Coronación. A comparative and dialogical approach between the visual poetics of both novels will be stressed. This relation evinces acoustic inflections that challenge underlying visualities in the emergence of landscapes. The landscapes originate impressionist and “vertical” disseminations, signs of critical innovations in Woolf’s and Donoso’s literary spaces.