After having published End of trip (1915) and Night and day (1919), Virginia Woolf breaks ties with the realistic tradition of the English novel and is fully introduced into modernism with Jacob's room, an ambiguous and unstructured story, built Around an absence. We know its protagonist, Jacob Flanders, basically for the opinions, comments, impressions of the people who have been around his life, mostly women. Only when Flanders travels to Italy and Greece is the character drawn more clearly from his own perspective. Jacob's story, told from his childhood, ends the war and the image of an empty room.
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