Name: Orlando (in Spanish)
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Author: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9786073128933

Type

Physical Book

Author

Virginia Woolf

Publisher

Debolsillo

Year

2015

Language

Spanish

Pages

250

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20 x 13 cm.

Weight

0.23

ISBN13

9786073128933

Edited in

México

Synopsis "Orlando (in Spanish)"

Novela dificilmente clasificable llena de andanzas, de encanto y de maravillosa extraneza, Orlando (1928) narra los avatares a lo largo de mas de trescientos anos de quien empieza siendo un caballero de la corte isabelina inglesa y acaba siendo mujer en el siglo XX. Producto en parte de la ambigua pasion de Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) por Vita Sackville-West y antecedente singular del realismo fantastico, la historia de su protagonista, ambientada siempre en sugerentes escenarios e impregnada por la particular obsesion de su autora por el transcurso del tiempo, se desliza como un deslumbrante cuento de hadas ante los fascinados ojos del lector. La presente edicion incorpora las ilustraciones de la edicion original que forman parte del propio juego literario y se presenta en una nueva traduccion, clara, exigente y escrupulosa. English Description Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation. "

Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.

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