Jacob's Room (Large Print Edition): Large Print Edition (Mint Editions (Large Print Library))

Woolf, Virgina

ISBN 13: 9798888975299

Editore: Mint Editions, 2023

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The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

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• Titolo: Jacob's Room (Large Print Edition): Large Print Edition (Mint Editions (Large Print Library))
• Editore: Mint Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798888975299
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good
• Peso: 535 grammi

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Riassunto

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man’s life from childhood until his untimely death in the first World War. On the surface, this could be considered an anti-war novel, yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels traditional forms of narration. The nebulous central character, Jacob Flanders, is strangely is absent from the novel, yet the spaces he traversed are not. In telling the story of Jacob through the perspective of the characters he encountered through his short life, Woolf has created an exceptional contemplation of memory, time, and identity. Subverting the bildungsroman genre, Jacob’s Room recounts a short and unsettled life through related incidents, fleeting impression, and delirious stream-of-conscience passages.

Through an almost cinematic lens, glimpses of Jacob’s early life are recollected through his mother; the idyllic time spent with her children and her uneasy experiences living a widower’s life. Through other voices, Jacob arrives at Cambridge, where he is able to socially integrate despite his humble upbringings. After graduating, he leaves for London, where he interacts with a wide range of individuals, both impoverished and from the wealthy class; yet he never fully connects to a meaningful human relationship. Jacob, questioning whether he is a failure, decides to leave London and travels to Greece. Fortunes abroad turn precarious, and he returns to London only to be sent off to the war, where he is killed in action. As E.M. Forester remarked at the publication of Jacob’s Room, “A new type of fiction has swum into view.” Woolf has created a transformative reading experience conveying the emptiness of one individual’s life by leaving out the traditional elements of plot and character, yet she manages to question the ways we fail to see each other as we actually are.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Jacob’s Room is both modern and readable.

Dalla quarta di copertina

LARGE PRINT EDITION .Jacob’s Room (1922), Virginia Woolf’s third novel, is a groundbreaking work that explores the nuances of identity and experience. The story of Jacob Flanders from childhood until his death on the battlefield is revealed through the viewpoints of the characters, primarily the women in his life. This is a bold and enriching classic of modernist literature.