Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1922.

Plot The novel does not feature a normal plot with one thing happening after another, but it is rather a big collage consisting of different situations and thoughts involving the protagonist, Jacob Flanders. Jacob's life and character is presented in this collage: There is not only internal monologue of Jacob himself, but also observations of him as a person, made by people who know him. In Jacob's Room Woolf does not use a classical narration structure, but breaks with literary traditions and finds an alternative of telling a story. She makes a puzzle of images that eventually form a whole, which is Jacob's personality and his experiences in life.