https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm By Virginia Woolf en-us 2023-04-02 13:46:57 UTC 2023-04-03 09:41:41 UTC hello@padlet.com rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541128233 2023-04-02 13:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541128233 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541142049 The novel begins with Orlando, in the 16th century, at the court of Queen Elizabeth I and that of his successor Giacomo I.
In those years he will fall in love with Sasha, daughter of the Russian ambassador who will abandon him.
Back home he will fall into a deep sleep that will last seven days, after which he will travel to Central Asia. Here he will have the role of ambassador until he falls back into a seven-day sleep, after which he will awaken in the body of a woman.
Orlando will spend the first few days with a nomadic community, where he reflected on how much more freedom women enjoy than in England.
But the love of poetry will make him return to London. Wearing women's clothes will prove to be difficult, which allowed him to understand how limited women are.
He will learn to deal with the spirit of him time, how to get married: he will marry Lord Bonthrop Shelmerdine.
The novel ends in 1928: Orlando is a successful writer thanks to the work "The Oak Tree".]]> 2023-04-02 14:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541142049 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541151930 The origins of the novel can be traced to Virginia Woolf's meeting and relationship with the poet Vita Sackville-West in the late 1920s.
It was from Vita that Woolf drew inspiration for the character of Orlando, whose aristocratic birth and fluid sexuality were reminiscent of the poetess.]]> 2023-04-02 14:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541151930 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541164251 The title of the work is Orlando: A Biography. In fact, the work follows the events of Orlando focusing on the most significant events of his life. The style and structure underline the quality of the work. In the intentions of Virginia Woolf there was to demonstrate how the Victorian conviction of being able to produce objective biographies and which did not consider the interiority of the subject was unfounded.The novel, is the first work after war and can capture the complexity of life. A biography that does not take into account the psychology of its protagonist for Woolf cannot exist.]]> 2023-04-02 14:55:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541164251 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541164983 Virginia Woolf meets Vita Sackville-West when she is forty years old. In 1922 Virginia Woolf has been married to Leonard Woolf since 1912, the meeting of Vita will mark a significant turning point in her life. With her Virginia will live a passionate, intense, tormented love. If Virginia will love her exclusively and completely (despite her marriage to Leonard), Vita will also experience other relationships with other women during her life that will cause suffering to Virginia, whose mental health will suffer until the end of bipolar disorder. Despite the suffering, Virginia will dedicate - or rather will be inspired by - Vita for the creation of Orlando which remains one of the most beautiful love stories in literature. In the novel there are many parallelism between Virginia, Vita and Orlando.]]> 2023-04-02 14:56:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541164983 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541165361 When we think of the most important voices of the twentieth century, we certainly cannot ignore the role that the experience of the Great War had in the creation of texts that would not have been accepted before. This led to the creation of new genres and new themes.]]> 2023-04-02 14:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541165361 rizzitanosiria https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541166745 The principalmente themes are:
gender identity
sexuality
feminist claims 
figure of androgynous beauty 
gender binarism 
opposition between male and female ]]> 2023-04-02 14:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2541166745 https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2542010135 2023-04-03 09:30:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rizzitanosiria/5d5b9h5nh5p6qjkm/wish/2542010135