'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning
the pages — oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders?
Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James
Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive
title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to
adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with
Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps
her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in
mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across
Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional
novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century. In 1922,
Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful
achievement—more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else,
and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its
publication, Woolf's first full-length work of experimental fiction
pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.
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Product details
ISBN
9780192671844
Published
2023
Edition
2. edition
Publisher
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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