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From his childhood on the wild, windswept shores of Cornwall and his college days at Cambridge to his life as a lawyer in London and a fateful journey to the Mediterranean, Jacob Flanders's story is told by the women in his life, whether through his mother's correspondence, the conversations of a friend or the thoughts and remembrances of those who love him.

An extraordinary departure from traditional forms of the novel, Jacob's Room is both an elegiac and experimental tale told in pieces and fragments, and one of Virginia Woolf 's most poignant stories.

"Jacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think. is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature." - MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

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ISBN9781847498366
PublisherAlma Books Ltd
Publication Date05/21/20
Pages224

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  • arthurzturm
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    Die Bewertung fällt mir schwer. „Jacobs Raum“ sprengt die Grenzen des traditionellen Romans. Woolf zeichnet das Porträt von Jacob Flanders, indem sie ihn durch die Augen anderer Figuren und fragmentarische Szenen beschreibt, wobei sie ein fantastische Sprachgewalt an den Tag legt. Die Erzählung ist nicht linear, sondern ein Mosaik aus Eindrücken und Gedanken, was die Unfassbarkeit des Lebens und die Schwierigkeit, eine Person vollständig zu erfassen, thematisiert. Die poetische Sprache macht das Buch sowohl lesenswert, kann durch die Komplexität und die nicht lineare Darstellung aber auch eine Herausforderung darstellen, daher einen Stern Abzug von mir.

    Mar 24, 2025

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