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Jacob’s Room

By: Virginia Woolf
Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
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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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Public Domain (P)2014 Naxos AudioBooks Drama & Plays United States
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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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