Jacob's Room

Author(s): Virginia Woolf

Genre(s): General Fiction

Narrators: Amanda, James K. White, LizMourant, Mary Herndon Bell, David Abbott, Isabelle Brasme

Number of Chapters: 16

Length: 6 hours and 04 minutes

Language: English

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. 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. (Introduction by Wikipedia)