Jacob's Room - Couverture souple

Woolf, V.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140185704 ISBN 13 : 9780140185706

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions: whether through his mother's letters, his friend's conversations, or the thoughts of the women who adore him. Then we glimpse him as a young man, caught under the glare of a London streetlamp. It is 1914, he is twenty-six, and Europe is on the brink of war ! This tantalizing novel heralded Woolf's bold departure from the traditional methods of the novel, with its experimental play between time and reality, memory and desire.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

First published in 1922, Jacob s Room was Virginia Woolf s third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war.

This Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge–bag trousers and gold beater s skin to Tonks and Steer, and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs; while an appendix lists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work.

Quatrième de couverture :

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY LAWRENCE NORFOLK AND ELISABETH BRONFEN

'Virginia Woolf must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition' New York Times

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.

See also: Night and Day

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140185704
• ISBN 13: 9780140185706
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240