Jacob's Room - Virgina Woolf

No Plainer Manifestation Of The Modernist Trend In Contemporary English Fiction May Be Found Than In Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room -the New York Times I Have Seldom Read A Cleverer Is Exquisitely Written, But The Characters Do Not Vitally Survive In The Mind Because The Author Has Been Obsessed By Details Of Originality And Cleverness. -arnold Bennettvirginia Woolf's Third Novel, Jacob's Room (1922), Is A Penetrating Look At One Man's Life From Childhood Until His Untimely Death In The First World War. On The Surface, This Could Be Considered An Anti-war Novel, Yet It Is A Wildly Inventive Experimental Work That Dispels Traditional Forms Of Narration.