Virginia Woolf's most popular and scandalous novel.

“Virginia Woolf is God; no one has written better.” - Milena Busquets

80TH ANNIVERSARY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF

Since its publication in 1928, Orlando has been one of Virginia Woolf's most popular novels for its originality and transgressive spirit. It tells the adventures of a young English aristocrat, handsome, wealthy, seductive, and a lover of literature—a figure inspired by the life and personality of the writer Vita Sackville-West, a close friend of the author—who rides through History with a capital H from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century and who, during the reign of Charles II, becomes a woman. This peculiar shift in eras and sex is a journey through time, places, and emotions, as well as a stimulating meditation on artistic creation.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colorful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.