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Virginia Woolfs impressionistic novel evokes the story of a mans life through a montage of passing images, conversations, and stream-of-conscious internal dialogue.
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Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (August 1, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1441762302
ISBN-13: 978-1441762306
Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.2 x 6.2 inches
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From Woolf's innumerable unfinished sentences and unaccounted for colors, we begin to see that there are no traditional themes or plots, and she has not set down to cement a story from the point of view of her subject. At the beginning of the novel, and throughout, everyone is looking for Jacob, and he cannot be found. We learn little or nothing about his life except what seems like scattered thoughts and phrases, and learn more about who he is from where he is not than where he is. By not being tied down to one theme or the traditional explanation and nature of having this fixed subject, Woolf is then able to attack, from outside-in, the hollowness and darkness she sees before her. She sees the fractioning and diverging "chasm in the continuity of our ways", and wonders what it would be to let go of this driving thing that makes it necessary to fix her narrative on one subject in her book. By bringing in endless new characters, and then leaving them, she tries to approach the manner by which we know our subjects of observation. "The young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us - why indeed? For the moment after, we know nothing about him." This is how we float through our lives, seeing these subjects of people andn pathways, moving around countries and eras in our internal time, without a fixed linearity. Since Woolf has seen that assumed "core" of linearity in the traditional Victorian novel crumble into dissolution, she looks at that darkness and tries to find what is real about it. What ends up glittering in her flashlight of exploration is this possibility of pathways, and a realization of what is real. She wants to start catching reality the way we live it.
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