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Jacob’s Room
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Published in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and The Waste Land, Jacob’s Room is Virginia Woolf’s own modernist manifesto. Ostensibly a study of a young man’s life on the eve of the Great War, it is really a bomb thrown into the world of the conventional novel, as she attempts to capture the richness and randomness of life’s encounters. Jacob Flanders is a mere point of contact between a crowd of people, appearing and disappearing in a tableau in which all is flux, without certainty and without a controlling viewpoint. But it seems that the author could not maintain this rigorous impersonality, and the radical technique breaks down, so that we finally see Jacob as a person, just as his world is blown apart.
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- P. Donovan
- 10-09-17
A beautiful reading of an early Woolf novel
Although the story splutters in places, the beautiful reading and the flashes of poetic writing make this more than worthwhile.
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