Jacob's Room

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.