Jacob's Room

This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. ***********. Jacob''s Room is the third novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 26 October 1922. The novel centres, in a very ambivalent way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in place of the central character, if indeed the novel can be said to have a ''protagonist'' in conventional terms. Motifs of emptiness and absence ''haunt'' the novel and establish its elegiac feel. Jacob is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgamation of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. .