Orlando
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.31 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0754087441 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 508 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Rachel Bowlby is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sussex.
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
ejw"Very mixed feelings" according to 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 of the few books that's actually been very difficult. There's a lot to really like about it, but there's a lot that just isn't my cup of tea.I like that the author quite obviously adores the main character, somehow that makes it very personal and lovely to read, but at the same time her portrayal of that chara. 010 said Very mixed feelings. 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 of the few books that's actually been very difficult. There's a lot to really like about it, but there's a lot that just isn't my cup of tea.I like that the author quite obviously adores the main character, somehow that makes it very personal and lovely to read, but at the same time her portrayal of that chara. A Nineteenth Century Transsexual Adventure 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. Published in 1928, Orlando has been billed as one of Woolf's best imaginative works however, such criticism was never seen in the light of reality but a surreal depiction of the writer's portrayal of a young man who wakes up one day as a woman, as if in the ordinary course of his life. As Woolf suggests of he. "Orlando" according to Cphe. 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 understatment. The concept, the style and prose was for this reader an eye opener. Prose that I could fall into and savour.I'm rating it highly because of it's uniqueness and it is a book that you can not be ambivalent about. To me that is what reading is all about.
This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon. 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. 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. .