Jacob Flanders es un joven que pasa de la adolescencia a la edad adulta en un brumoso rito de iniciación. Desde su niñez en las costas azotadas por el viento de Cornwall hasta sus días como estudiante en Cambridge, su carácter evasivo y camaleónico se revela gradualmente en una corriente de incidentes e impresiones vagamente relacionados: ya sea a través de las cartas de su madre, las conversaciones de su amigo o el pensamientos de las mujeres que lo adoran. Luego lo vemos de joven, atrapado bajo el resplandor de una farola de Londres. Es 1914, tiene veintiséis años y Europa está al borde de la guerra ... Esta novela tentadora anunció la audaz partida de Woolf de los métodos tradicionales de la novela, con su juego experimental entre el tiempo y la realidad, la memoria y el deseo.
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Jacob Flanders is a young man passing from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. From his boyhood on the windswept shores of Cornwall to his days as a student at Cambridge, his elusive, chameleon-like character is gradually revealed in a stream of loosely related incidents and impressions: whether through his mother's letters, his friend's conversations, or the thoughts of the women who adore him. Then we glimpse him as a young man, caught under the glare of a London streetlamp. It is 1914, he is twenty-six, and Europe is on the brink of war... This tantalizing novel heralded Woolf's bold departure from the traditional methods of the novel, with its experimental play between time and reality, memory and desire.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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