Name: El Cuarto de Jacob (in Spanish)
SKU: 54428776
Price: 1300.00 TWD
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9788426481368

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Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Lumen

Synopsis "El Cuarto de Jacob (in Spanish)"

A cien años de su primera publicación, y ambientada en los años que precedieron la Primera Guerra Mundial, la tercera novela de Virginia Woolf retrata la infancia y juventud de Jacob Flanders. Con escenas de gran carga simbólica, desde las playas de Cornualles hasta las ruinas de Grecia, pasando por los claustros de Oxford, Woolf alude de manera sutil y conmovedora al horizonte histórico de toda una generación destinada a la tragedia. La novela marca además el momento en que la escritora, con una inigualable prosa poética que le permite llevar a cabo experimentos con el tiempo y la conciencia, abandona los métodos tradicionales de la narrativa inglesa para volcarse en su renovadora escritura.

«Una de las inteligencias e imaginaciones más delicadas que ensayaron felices experimentos con la novela inglesa».
Jorge Luis Borges

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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