Synopsis
The novel, first published in 1922, is centered around the life story of Jacob Flanders, the protagonist, and is told mainly through the perspectives of the woman in Jabob’s life. With its experimental forms and style, is an important modernist text.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was born in London and is considered a modernist writer and one of the pioner in the use of stream of consciousness. Her fist novel The voyage Out was publiched in 1915. Mrs Dalloway (1925) is another Woolf’s famouse novel.