All of Virginia Woolf's literary production is linked to her life adventures and Orlando is no different case. Her lover Vita Sackville-West was the one who inspired her in this novel. But she's not Orlando, of course. Orlando is a being impossible to comprehend, who lives in five different centuries (from the mid-16th century to the beginning of the 20th), who changes sex without changing his identity, who is an ambassador and lives for a while with a traveling group of gypsies... Orlando He is a being in search of his vital plenitude, seen from the perspective of a peculiar, ironic biographer who parodies the genre itself. Because Orlando is many Orlandos.

With this, the story, always set in suggestive settings and impregnated with the author's particular obsession with the passage of time, slides like a dazzling fairy tale before the fascinated eyes of the reader. In short, Orlando (1928) is, above all, a peculiar and tremendously original text, a novel as wonderful as it is difficult to classify. Only narrative agility like Woolf's could weave such a literary game, and only an author like Borges was in a position to translate it into our language.

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