Jacob'un Odası

"I think this time my approach will be completely different; I will not build scaffolding; not a single brick will be visible, always a twilight feeling, but heart, passion, humor, everything is a fire burning in the mist." "It will shine like."
- Virginia Woolf (From Diary)

Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel, Jacob's Room. The novel is a portrait of a young man who is both a representative and a victim of the social values that linked Edwardian English society to the First World War. As we follow the course of Jacob's life, we end with his childhood, his Cambridge years, the bohemian circles of London, Paris, and a trip to Greece, but this is not a Bildungsroman as we know it. Woolf breaks and disrupts traditional methods of creating characters and environments. Jacob's Room is a novel designed by the author as a building, an architectural expert. The title of the novel refers not only to Jacob's 'room', but also to the sudden, heartbreaking emptiness he left in his room, and therefore around him, after his death in the First World War. In one sense, Jacob's Room is a novel dedicated to the memory of Virginia Woolf's beloved brother Thoby Stephen, who died at an early age, and in general to the memory of all young men who were sacrificed in wars in the prime of their lives. A depiction of a life still in formation 'in the fog'...



Number of Pages: 216

Print Year: 2001


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Iletisim Yayincilik