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Concetti Chiave

  • "Orlando" is an experimental novel by Virginia Woolf, showcasing her ability to adapt narrative style to different historical periods.
  • The book sparked significant debate in London literary circles due to its innovative narrative techniques.
  • It serves as a love declaration from Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, blurring lines between biography and fiction.
  • The plot features the androgynous character Orlando, transitioning from a young man to a woman across four centuries.
  • Woolf employs varied stylistic approaches, switching between omniscient and third-person narration.

"Orlando" is a novel written by the English author Virginia Woolf.

Indice

  1. Stile narrativo e dibattito letterario
  2. Un album segreto e una biografia fittizia
  3. Peculiarità e trama del romanzo

Stile narrativo e dibattito letterario

The book is experimental because:

- The author demonstrates a great ability to vary her narrative style according to the historical moment that is narrated.

- it is characterized by new narrative solutions that, at the time of the writing of the novel, aroused a lively debate in London literary circles.

Un album segreto e una biografia fittizia

"Orlando" looks more like a secret album; in fact it can be considered as a declaration of love written by a woman, Woolf, for another woman (the noble Vita Sackville-West, with whom Virginia Woolf had a relationship).

“Orlando” can be considered as a fictional biography of Vita Sackville West, a poetic character more than a poet, a modern and elusive woman, on the crest of the wave in the fashion of the period: androgynous, bisexual, fierce smoker and masculine intellectual. Virginia will come out blessed by their meeting, in love with her strength and her charm.

Peculiarità e trama del romanzo

The peculiarity of this novel is the great originality of the plot. The plot is very articulate and revolves around the androgynous figure of Orlando, hero-heroine who spans four centuries (from the 16th to the 19th), often clashing with the English society of those centuries, which as a handsome young man turns into an enchanting lady .

From a stylistic point of view, Virginia Woolf alternates various registers and points of view: for example, the narrator is sometimes omniscient, other ones in the third person.

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