Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room (1922) is a groundbreaking modernist novel that traces the life of Jacob Flanders through fragmented impressions and the perceptions of others. Rather than a traditional plot, Woolf constructs Jacob’s identity through memory, absence, and shifting perspectives—capturing the dissonance of pre-war England and the emotional void left by war. It’s a lyrical meditation on time, identity, and the unknowability of others.