Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's own modernist manifesto, published in 1922, the same year as Ulysses and The Waste Land. It is ostensibly a study of a young man's life on the brink of Universe War I, but it is really a bomb tossed into the world of the traditional book, as she seeks to depict the complexity and randomness of life's interactions. Jacob Flanders is merely a point of contact between a swarm of individuals, appearing and disappearing in a tableau in which everything is in flux, devoid of certainty and a guiding viewpoint. However, it appears that the author was unable to maintain this strict impersonality, and the radical tactic fails, allowing us to perceive Jacob as a person just as his world is blown apart.
A young woman who has everything going for her, except for dates She’s got a good job, great parents, great friends and an Ivy League education. But holy wow is her dating life in a rut. She’s going on dates, that’s for sure. But she hit rock bottom a while ago, and each new man finds a way to dig the floor a little deeper. She’s gone out with— Men who refer to themselves in th...
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