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In writing her third novel Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf intended to unite her experiments in 'The Mark on the Wall', 'Kew Gardens', and 'An Unwritten Novel' to challenge traditional "materialist" writers. In this novel, Jacob Flanders lives in his rooms in Cambridge and afterwards in London. Though the author depicts him in the train to Cambridge probably at the end of September, through another passenger's point of view, we see his room at Trinity College for the first time in Easter Term, probably next year. But then he is not there. He is dining in Hall, and the author describes the inside of his room. Jacob's room in London is at Lamb's Conduit Street, near the British Museum, and the lodging house was built in the eighteenth century. Since his Cambridge days he has been interested in the ancient Greek culture, and at the same time, in indecency. He has to cope with adolescent themes between the mind and the body, and between beauty and love. Some women appear before him. His friend's sister Clara Durrant suppresses her love to him. He brings into his room Florinda, an attractive and illiterate street-walker. Fanny Elmer is an artist's model, who loves Jacob, but knows that he will forget her. In his journey to Greece, he goes up to Acropolis at Athens, and his soul's solitary pilgrimage seems to come to an end. His love affair there with Mrs. Sandra Wentworth Williams is Woolf's another challenge to "materialist" writers. Soon after his return to London, he is killed in World War 1. And in the last chapter, "He left everything just as it was" in his room. Bonamy gives a cry of Jacob's name. Mrs. Flanders holds out a pair of Jacob's old shoes as if to declare his journey's end.
- 日本ヴァージニア・ウルフ協会の論文
- 1994-09-30
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