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Author: Virginia Woolf
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Jacobs Room
Virginia Woolf
Jacobs Room is a novel first published in 1922. The story is presented almost entirely through the impressions that other characters have of Jacob Flanders, the protagonist. It focuses mainly from the perspective of the women in his life, including the uninhibited young art student Florinda, with whom he has an affair.
Set in pre-war England, the novel chronicles Jacob's life, from his childhood, through his time at Cambridge University, to adulthood. Despite this, we do not have a very clear picture of him, as he is described in very indirect terms, the result of the different perceptions that each of the characters has of him.
Although much of the work takes place in London, towards the end of the novel Jacob travels to Italy and then to Greece.
Monday or Tuesday
Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday is the eponymous story from the eight-story collection "Monday or Tuesday" by the British author. The book was published in New York in 1921.
Monday or Tuesday is a story in which a heron undertakes its routine flight, one assumes on a Monday, during which it observes its surroundings, first from high in the sky and then as close as the inside of a house, without ever learning the truth it seems to seek.
At the end of the story, it is suggested that the same thing is going to happen the next day, Tuesday, so it makes no difference whether it is one day or the other; hence the title.
But we can also read this text as a metaphor for the human impossibility of knowing reality, no matter how close we get to it.
Night And Day
Virginia Woolf
Night And Day was published in 1919. This novel is set in Edwardian London and examines the relationship between love, marriage, happiness and success, raising questions such as whether marriage is necessary for happiness.
It contrasts the lives and love bonds between the main characters, Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham and William Rodney. At the beginning of the novel, Katharine, who is a very lonely person, becomes engaged to William, but after a while they end their engagement.
Mary has an unsuccessful romantic life, falls in love with Ralph, but when he proposes to her, she rejects him as insincere. Ralph, for his part, lives chasing Katharine through the streets of London and often walks past her house, hoping to see her inside. William is Katharine's first romantic interest, but when she decides not to marry him, he becomes interested in her cousin Cassandra.
Orlando A Biography
Virginia Woolf
Orlando is a biography published on October 11, 1928.
It was published by Hogarth Press, a publishing house owned by the Woolf couple. It is a partially biographical work, based on the life of Woolf's girlfriend, Vita Sackville-West. It is considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels and, therefore, the most successful during her lifetime. It has had a great stylistic influence and is considered important in literature in general, and in women's writing and gender studies in particular.
This novel addresses topics considered taboo at the time, such as homosexuality, female sexuality, as well as the role of women in society and as literary creators.
The Voyage Out
Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out is the first novel published by Woolf in 1915, by her half-brother's publisher, Gerald Duckworth and Company Ltd.
In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's most intelligent and socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace sets sail for South America on her father's ship, and embarks on a voyage of self-discovery on a modern version of a mythical voyage.
Introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character in Woolf's novel, «Mrs. Dalloway». The uneven ensemble of passengers gives Woolf the opportunity to satirize contemporary Edwardian life.
In both The Voyage Out and «Night and Day» the writer's intention to break the narrative molds inherited from earlier English novel writing is evident, especially the subordination of characters and actions to the overall plot of the novel, as well as the descriptions of traditional settings and characters.