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Orlando’s journey is also an internal one—he is an impulsive poet who learns patience in matter of the heart, and a woman who knows what it is to be a man. Virginia Woolf’s most unusual creation, Orlando is a fantastical biography as well as a funny, exuberant romp through history that examines the true nature of sexuality.
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In short, like Orlando's own manuscript "The Oak Tree," Orlando "wanted to be read. It must be read" (O 272). 1 The significance of this aesthetic is found in the dual nature of Woolf' s innovation: that is, as Woolf purposefully deconstructs biography and narrative in Orlando , she not only creates a new narrative form but also redefines the.
Orlando: A Biography is a high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West. It is arguably one of Woolf's most popular and accessible novels: a history of English literature in satiric form.
CHAPTER 2. The biographer is now faced with a difficulty which it is better perhaps to confess than to gloss over. Up to this point in telling the story of Orlando's life, documents, both private and historical, have made it possible to fulfil the first duty of a biographer, which is to plod, without looking to right or left, in the indelible footprints of truth; unenticed by flowers ...
Full Title: Orlando: A Biography; When Written: 1927-1928 Where Written: London, England When Published: 1928 Literary Period: Modernism Genre: Historical Fiction; Experimental Biography Setting: London and Constantinople, spanning from the 16th to the 20th century Climax: October 11, 1928, when Orlando wakes at 10:00 a.m. to “the present ...
Orlando confirms the judgment that Mrs. Woolf is the most brilliant of the English experimenters. Her great gifts of language and intuition are joined in this book with a deep-lying sense of humor ...
