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Jacob's Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and is presented almost entirely through the impressions other characters have of Jacob.
- Virginia Woolf
- 290
- 1922
- October 26, 1922
Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), is not her most famous book, but it is one of her defining novels and marked a watershed in her development as a writer, so a little analysis of its significance, and a summary of the story behind its composition, may be of interest.
Jacob's Room. O Quarto de Jacob é um romance de Virginia Woolf publicado em 26 de outubro de 1922. Foi o primeiro livro de Woolf publicado pela editora do casal Woolf, a Hogarth Press .
Jacob’s Room, novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922. Experimental in form, it centres on the character of Jacob Flanders, a lonely young man unable to synthesize his love of Classical culture with the chaotic reality of contemporary society, notably the turbulence of World War I.
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- Virginia Woolf
- English
- 1922
- Jacob's Room
by Pericles Lewis. Virginia Woolf ‘s novel Jacob’s Room ( 1922) concerns the difficulty, especially for his mother, of making posthumous sense of the life of Jacob Flanders, a young man who dies in the first world war. (Flanders was a region of Belgium where the British sustained many of their heaviest casualties).
Jacob’s Room presents the traces of a life, Jacob Flanders destined to die on the battlefields of WW1. Published in 1922, it’s the novel that’s seen to mark Woolf’s full flight from more traditional narrative to wholly experimental: when this first appeared, some critics compared it to jazz and novelist E. M. Forster labelled it a ...
