Jacob's room - Virginia Woolf
KORTE INHOUD
"Jacob's Room" (1922) comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occured. The style closely resembles that of "Kew Gardens". The blobs of colour continue to drift past, but in their midst, interrupting their course like a closely sealed jar, rises the solid figure of a young man. In what sense Jacob is alive - in what sense any of Virginia Woolf's characters live - we have yet to determine. But that he exists, that he stands as does a monument is certain, and wherever he stands we recognize him for the same and are touched by his outline. The coherence of the book is even more amazing than its beauty. In the stream of glittering similes, unfinished sentences, hectic dialogues, unanchored proper names, we seem to be going nowhere. Yet the goal comes, the method and the matter prove to have been one, and looking back from the pathos of the closing scene we see for a moment the airy drifting atoms piled into a colonnade. The break with "Night and day" and even with "The voyage out" is complete. A new typ...
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Reprint of the 1960 edition - Harcourt Brace & company
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Boek in goede staat - 2 sterren wegens ouderdomsvlekken (oxidatie) en verkleuring van de bladranden, maar vooral ook ongelijke verkleuring op cover en rug.
