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94,662 ratings8,218 reviews. Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West.
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Orlando 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 of literature.
- Virginia Woolf
- 1928
12 de fev. de 2017 · An epic novel, it follows the journey of one character, Orlando, over the course of about 350 years (1588 – 1928). It is a biography not of any one character, but of the nature and history of gender, identity, and sexuality through time.
13 de mai. de 2020 · This formula is particularly meaningful for Orlando, a book that purports to be a biography. Raitt and Blyth have produced a biography of a biography, one that is in the spirit of Woolf’s attitude to the genre. They understand the text as having multiple ‘lives’ and ‘afterlives.’
Customer reviews. 4.3 out of 5. 1,435 global ratings. Orlando: A Biography. by Virginia Woolf. Write a review. How customer reviews and ratings work. Top positive review. Positive reviews ›. Fyrecurl. A Nineteenth Century Transsexual Adventure. Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2013.
1 de out. de 2018 · Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf I’ve not read “Orlando” since university so in my memory it felt like one of her more flighty and playful novels focusing on gender. It is that but there is so much more in the novel I’d forgotten about or missed when I read it the first time.
Overview. Orlando, a novel by English author Virginia Woolf was published in 1928 and is a fictional biography of the immortal Orlando who begins life as a young nobleman in Elizabethan England and later transforms into a woman. The novel is a satirical examination of gender roles and a commentary on the fluidity of identity.
