Virginia Woolf

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Jacob's Room

Beschreibung

Through Virginia Woolf's pioneering use of stream-of-consciousness technique and impressionistic prose, Jacob's Room captures fragments of a life that is constantly slipping away, just beyond the reach of full understanding. Following the life of Jacob Flanders, Jacob's Room traces his journey from a simple childhood in the English countryside to his time as a student at Cambridge and eventually to the battlefields of World War I. Jacob's voice is markedly absent throughout the entirety of the novel, with his character being presented through the fragmented perspectives of dialogue, letters, and thoughts from those around him-family, friends, and lovers. Unlike conventional novels of its time, Jacob's Room is less concerned with plot and more focused on the inner lives of its characters and the passage of time. First published in 1922, it's not only a portrait of a single life but also a reflection on the larger forces at play in early twentieth-century England. It stands as a profound meditation on the unknowable aspects of human existence, cementing Woolf's place as one of the most innovative writers of her generation and the modernist period.

Autor

Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the most important modernist twentieth century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. She was born in an affluent household in South Kensington, London, attended the Ladies' Department of King's College and was acquainted with the early reformers of women's higher education. Having been home-schooled for the most part of her childhood, mostly in English classics and Victorian literature, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. During the interwar period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary society as well as a central figure in the group of intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury Group. She published her first novel titled The Voyage Out in 1915, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). She is also known for her essay A Room of One's Own (1929), where she wrote the much-quoted dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Her works are widely read all over the world and have been translated into more than fifty languages. She suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life and took her own life by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read & Co. Classics
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9781446521465
• ISBN-10: 144652146X
• Artikelnr.: 33184039