Jacob's room

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Jacobs Room (Jacob's Room) is the third novel Virginia Woolf , the first publication was published on 27 October 1922 publishing company, the Hogarth Press in Richmond . He appeared almost simultaneously with the Ulysses by James Joyce .

To the work

The novel describes in an ambivalent way the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders and gives the impressions that other people have of Jacob. It's a character study that reveals little plot; Jacob's life is broken down into innumerable facets and reflected in scenes, impressions and images. In this novel, Woolf dispenses with the continuous stream of narrative; the break with conventional narrative technique is complete for the first time. His theme is the emptiness and incomprehensibility of life; Jacob does not exist as a real man, but is an amalgam of the stream of consciousness (stream of consciousness), of thoughts and feelings. In this novel, like Joyce, she worked with the technique of the inner monologue. The protagonist Jacob is very similar to her late brother Thoby Stephen.

content

The novel begins in the prewar years with Jacob's childhood in Cornwall , describes the studies in Cambridge which he breaks off, the London bohemian à la Bloomsbury , an affair with a married woman. Trips to Italy and Greece follow. He retires to his room, immersed himself in the works of ancient Greek and Roman authors and the Elizabethan times until late at night. The story is told primarily from the perspective of women in Jacob's life, including Clara Durrant from the "upper-middle-class" and the young art student Florinda with whom he had an affair. The First World War has broken out; Jacob's trail is lost in Flanders. Instead of a death scene, Woolf describes the empty room he leaves behind.

Literary meaning

Jacobs Zimmer deviates from Woolf's earlier conventional novels, The Voyage Out (1915) and Night and Day (1919). The work is classified as an important modern text; its experimental form is seen as an upgrade from the progressive writing style used by Woolf in her early collection of short stories entitled Monday or Tuesday (1919). The following works Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (To the Lighthouse) and (1927) Shafts (The Waves) (1931) make their experimental novels called.

literature

  • 1922: Jacob's Room . Hogarth Press, Richmond - Jacobs Room . Novel. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 2000, ISBN 3-596-14578-3

Radio play editing

  • Jacobs Zimmer , radio play in four parts. With Friedhelm Ptok , Britta Hammelstein, Wiebke Puls , Sylvana Krappatsch , Annette Paulmann, Benedikt Lückenhaus, Alexander Lückenhaus, Andrea Wenzl, Caroline Ebner, Sabine Kastius, Hans Kremer , Johannes Zirner, Stefan Merki / Translated from the English by Gaby Hartel / Editing: Gaby Hartel / Composition: Jakob Diehl / Director: Katja Langenbach / BR radio play and media art 2012.