Orlando
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (814 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754087441 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 559 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the 16th century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s.. This exuberant "biography" is seen as Woolf's most light-hearted novel
Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. 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. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car.
Very mixed feelings ejw2010 It is difficult for me to define my opinion of this book. I try to ignore the idol worship that happens with writers that have been declared "great" for several decades - they're fashionable, and it's fashionable to like them, but I try to form my own opinion. This is one. "A Nineteenth Century Transsexual Adventure" according to Fyrecurl. The most brilliant portrayal of a transsexual experience in modern history. Even when Magnus Hirshfield was publishing his treatise on the transsexual phenomenah, Woolf relates an account of the intracies of gender identity undiscovered by social scientists and biologists. Cphe said Orlando. I admit I went into this novel with some pre conceived thoughts about Orlando. The synopsis on various sites really doesn't do the book justice. I'd read To The Lighthouse prior to this novel and I admit I was somewhat prejudiced.To say I was surprised by Orlando is an un
. Rachel Bowlby is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex