Name: Jacob's Room: A Modernist Portrait of Youth, War, and Absence (en Inglés)
SKU: 68964115
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Author: Woolf, Virginia
ISBN: 9798182723466

portada Jacob's Room: A Modernist Portrait of Youth, War, and Absence (en Inglés)

Jacob's Room: A Modernist Portrait of Youth, War, and Absence (en Inglés)

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Curated Collection Publishing

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Woolf, Virginia

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Inglés

N° páginas

178

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Tapa Dura

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9798182723466

Jacob's Room: A Modernist Portrait of Youth, War, and Absence (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Jacob's Room: A Modernist Portrait of Youth, War, and Absence (en Inglés)"

Who is Jacob Flanders? To his mother, he is the difficult boy whose future she cannot foresee. To friends, teachers, women, and strangers, he is by turns handsome, awkward, intelligent, distant, self-absorbed, and full of promise. Yet no perspective can contain him. Virginia Woolf builds Jacob's life from glimpses: childhood on the Cornish coast, student rooms at Cambridge, London conversations, love affairs, books, journeys, and the objects he leaves behind. Rather than offer a conventional biography, Jacob's Room places an absence at its center. The narrative moves among minds, voices, scenes, and impressions, allowing Jacob to emerge through what others notice and misunderstand. Rooms retain traces of their occupants; letters cross distances without securing intimacy; social judgments harden around a person whose inner life remains unreachable. Woolf's shifting perspective asks how well any life can be known-and how readily a culture turns a young man into an image of what it expects him to become. The novel also carries the gathering pressure of history. Jacob's youth unfolds in the years before the First World War, amid universities, museums, classical ideals, imperial confidence, and the rituals of English society. The war is not presented through battlefield action. Instead, its devastation arrives through interruption, silence, and the eloquence of what is missing. Woolf's restraint gives the novel its lasting force: an individual loss becomes inseparable from the destruction of a generation. First published in 1922, Jacob's Room marked a decisive turn in Woolf's art. Its fragments, transitions, and lyrical patterns helped open new possibilities for the modern novel, replacing orderly explanation with the partial truths of perception and memory. At once intimate and elusive, satirical and elegiac, it is a portrait of a young man assembled from the world around him-and a meditation on everything even love cannot preserve.