OPEN A BOOK,OPEN THE WORLD
出版日期：2024.04.11
ISBN：9781784877958
書號：20309367
裝訂：平裝
定價：$530
吳爾芙在這本小說中捨棄一般傳統刻劃角色與敘述經驗的方法，透過雅各身邊人物對他的印象、與他相處的回憶來描寫他的成長過程。雖然主題同為成長，但《雅各的房間》在形式上突破了正統的成長小說，是吳爾芙第一本充滿實驗性質的小說。
吳爾芙的前兩本小說，《出航》、《夜與日》，在形式上較為傳統，《雅各的房間》可視為她寫作風格轉變的起點，其創新的手法影響了意識流文學的發展，也讓這本小說被認為是現代主義文學中的重要作品。
New to the Vintage Classics Woolf series, this is Woolf's groundbreaking experimental novel.
Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic London. Jacob always yearns for something greater, and embarks on a voyage to the Mediterranean before the war begins and his fate is forever altered. Impressionistic in style, the narrative is as inspired now as it was when it first appeared.
