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9 de jul. de 2012 · Orlando is a biography written about a fictitious character, Orlando, which was inspired by Virginia's real-life friend and lover Vita Sackville-West. The story spans over 400 years where Orlando's life changes from man to woman, from century to century.
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- Shifting Gender and Sexuality
- Two Main Characters
- Sasha and Other Characters
- Virginia Woolf’s Aims and Themes
- Exploration of Various Time Periods
- Notable Quotes from Orlando by Virginia Woolf
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He explores and enjoys sexual relations with women of varying types, though each of his three serious ventures into love soon goes sour. Orlando will twice mistake the loves of his life for the wrong gender, which is particularly complex after Orlando himself has become a woman, remembering himself as a man, loving a man who is actually a woman. Ul...
There are two main characters in the novel; the first is Orlando, who changes from male to female throughout the long passage of time. The second is actually the narrator — a third-person, mostly omniscient but nevertheless unreliable “biographer,” whose tone and style change throughout the book, as Orlando and his life are changing. One could argu...
Other characters (of the usual sense) include Sasha, Orlando’s true first love, a Russian princess; and Shel, Orlando’s husband who is actually a woman (or who, at least, has the qualities of one) There are also: Archduchess Henrietta who is actually Archduke Harry (perhaps the only truly homosexual character, as the others whose genders bend throu...
Orlando,though massive in scale, brilliant in conception, and beautiful in prose, was actually considered by Woolf to be a “writer’s holiday,” so to speak. She refused to allow gender nor time to constrain her writing, which is evidenced by the fact that Orlando, who begins the story as a man and ends it as a woman, four centuries later, only ages ...
The exploration of the many time periods, from Elizabethan to the early 20th century, particularly in terms of the literary arts in any given movement, will be fascinating for serious readers. But the beautiful and sensuous prose (less explorative than other works, making it more accessible) as well as the unusual topic and uninhibited re-imagining...
“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.” . . . . . . . . . . “Once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill.” . . . . . . . . . . “Bad, good, or indifferent, I’ll write, from this day ...
Review of Orlandoon Conceptual Fiction1928 review in The New York TimesOrlando was a contemporary success, both critically and financially, and guaranteed the Woolfs' financial stability. It was generally viewed not just as high literature, but as a gossipy novel about Sackville-West. However, the New York Times review of the book acknowledged the importance of the work as an experiment into new forms ...
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9 de nov. de 2023 · ‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: A Collective Approach to Joy. The filmmaker Paul B. Preciado shares the title role with 20 trans and nonbinary performers to make a point about the...
12 de out. de 2018 · “Orlando” is the Virginia Woolf novel we read right now because it paved the way for rethinking gender identity and feminism through politically charged science fiction and fantasy by Ursula ...
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13 de mai. de 2020 · Virginia Woolf Book review. May 13. Written By Literature Cambridge. Karina Jakubowicz writes about a scholarly edition of Orlando from Cambridge University Press. Orlando: A BiographyThe Cambridge Critical Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf Edited by Suzanne Raitt and Ian Blyth (Cambridge University press, 2018)
24 de out. de 1973 · Amazon.com Review. In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West.
