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Orlando. or-LAN-do. Wrap your tongue around it, and whisper it. There’s a luscious, syrupy, sensual, mysterious feel. Much like the eponymous hero(ine), and the sumptuously described natural and man-made world Orlando inhabits.
The name conjures cross-dressing disguises in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a Marmalade Cat, maybe Tilda Swinton or Legolas, and, for Google, theme parks in Florida. If you know the novel’s USP and Greek mythology, you may also think of Tiresias and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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The name conjures cross-dressing disguises in Shakespeare’s As You Like It, a Marmalade Cat, maybe Tilda Swinton or Legolas, and, for Google, theme parks in Florida. If you know the novel’s USP and Greek mythology, you may also think of Tiresias and Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
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This edition has a wonderful essay by Jeanette Winterson that was published in The New Statesman in February 2013 and reproduced in the theatre programme for Neil Bartlett's 2022 stage adaptation, starring Emma Corrin.
Winterson's preface
Winterson explains the backstory of Woolf's love of Vita Sackville-West, her resistance to gender roles, and the playful boldness of writing a novel as though it were a biography, while also being about a real person, but without the constraints of time. It chime ...more
Winterson's preface
Winterson explains the backstory of Woolf's love of Vita Sackville-West, her resistance to gender roles, and the playful boldness of writing a novel as though it were a biography, while also being about a real person, but without the constraints of time. It chime ...more
All of Woolf's books make me feel like I put on a cozy sweater and am curled up in a comfortable chair by the fire. The story itself doesn't seem to matter. With Orlando there are thought provoking moments but the story doesn't make a lot of sense.
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