Orlando, Virginia Woolf's sixth major novel, is a fantastic historical biography, which spans almost years in the lifetime of its protagonist. The novel was conceived as a "writer's holiday" from more structured and demanding novels. Woolf allowed neither time nor gender to constrain her writing. Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October A high-spirited romp inspired by the tumultuous family history of Woolf's lover and close friend, the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, it is arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels: a /5(K). “Woolf dedicated Orlando to Vita Sackville-West, her close friend, lover, and the model for Orlando’s character” (Cersonsky). This dedication is important to note as Woolf was writing Orlando through the perceptions of Vita, which eliminates the possibility of the novel being a true biography because Vita is not the author. The novel holds many themes involving identity, social class, gender, and time, .
In she married Leonard Woolf and together, in , they founded their own printing press. Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in , for whom the brilliant fantasy of Orlando was written. She died in after drowning herself in the River Ouse. Orlando: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes. The story of Orlando spans over years (). During this time, Orlando ages only thirty-six years, and changes gender from a man to a woman. This fantastic story opens with the protagonist, Orlando, a young noble boy, pretending to chop off the heads of Moors, just like his father and. Orlando swings his sword at the "Pagan" head of a Moor hanging from the rafters of his father's expansive English mansion. Orlando's father—or perhaps grandfather—took the head while riding "in the barbarous fields of Africa," and Orlando is eager to follow in their footsteps. For now, however, he is just 16, and terribly late.
Orlando: A Biography is a novel by Virginia Woolf, first published on 11 October Inspired by the tumultuous family history of the aristocratic poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lover and close friend, it is arguably one of her most popular novels; Orlando is a history of English literature in satiric form. The book describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries, meeting the key figures of English literary history. Orlando by Virginia Woolf () was the esteemed British author’s sixth major work. It was written in a year, between To the Lighthouse and The Waves. An epic novel, it follows the journey of one character, Orlando, over the course of about years ( – ). It is a biography not of any one character, but of the nature and history of gender, identity, and sexuality through time. In , 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. 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 s.
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