Orlando - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1856132692 ISBN 13 : 9781856132695

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic, bisexual writers Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, then gallops through the centuries to end up as a woman writer in Virginia Woolf's own time.

A wry commentary on gender roles and modes of history, Orlando is also, in Woolf's own words, a light-hearted 'writer's holiday' which delights in its ambiguity and capriciousness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1856132692
• ISBN 13: 9781856132695
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Éditeur: Lyons Brenda
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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