Orlando. Una biografía

Orlando. Una biografía - Virginia Woolf - Akal
Publisher name: 
Akal
Year of publication: 
2018
Pages: 
296
Book size:
14x22cm
Weight: 1000 g
Binding: 
Rustic

The work considered the most brilliant of Virginia Woolf's literary production
Orlando. A biography (1928) recounts part of the life trajectory of an aristocratic boy from the court of Elizabeth I of England who, after a deep sleep, wakes up one day incarnated as a woman. Orlando's progressive acceptance of his new identity will lead to a dissertation on the female condition that takes the reader back to the 20th century, as time passes by fleetingly. This allows the author to delve into issues that in her time caused a real scandal: sexuality in general and homosexuality in particular, the role of women with respect to these issues and the restrictions that society had imposed on those who did not conform to the prevailing moral and ethical profile. But in reality, Virginia Woolf uses her own experience to analyze these questions, since Orlando is none other than Vita Sackville...read more

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