Jacob’s Room

Jacob’s Room, published in 1922, is Virginia Woolf’s first full-length experimental novel, marking her shift into modernist narrative techniques. The book traces the life and death of Jacob Flanders, a young man who remains elusive and partially defined through the fragmented impressions of others. Woolf explores memory, time, and identity with lyrical prose and stream-of-consciousness narration. Jacob’s Room is a meditation on absence, war, and the unknowability of the self, and it set the stage for Woolf’s later masterpieces.