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Orlando - Cássio Starling Carlos, Virginia Woolf, Marcus Mello, Pedro Maciel Guimarães, Marcelo Coelho
Orlando
Format: hardcover
ISBN: 978853361005
Publisher: Folha
Pages no: 64
Edition language: Portuguese
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Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios
Musings/Träumereien/Devaneios rated it
2.0 Biological Constructs: "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf
(Original Review, 2002-06-18)I’m probably in a minority, but I find Woolf hugely overrated. A snob in the way that Wilde was a snob before her, sucking up to the wealthy and titled and, like Wilde, happy to be unfaithful if it ingratiated her with the gentry. People go on about ‘a room of one’s own’...
Domhnall
Domhnall rated it
3.0 Orlando
Virginia Woolf cannot write badly but this book is entirely self indulgent and, despite some beautiful language, says very little of significance. In so far as it could be accused of having a plot, it does open up the possibility of interesting reflections, for example on the differences between me...
A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it
5.0 Orlando: A Biography
December 4, 2015This time I read the book aloud, my partner had never read any Virginia Woolf before and has the tendency to fall asleep when reading anything that doesn't relate to work. During the course of the novel I, of course, lost track of many sentences, lost breath after third semicolons an...
BrokenTune
BrokenTune rated it
5.0 Orlando
Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? And then what strange powers are these that penetrate our most secret ways and change our most treasured possessions without our willing it ? Had Orlando, worn out by the extremity of hi...
shell pebble
shell pebble rated it
5.0 Queer transformations
In tribute to her beloved friend, Woolf allows reality to submit entirely to feeling, spirit and personality, casting Vita Sackville-West as a time-traveller who changes sex at the age of thirty. The result is joyous, riotous, and rings with a deeper truth than 'straight' biography ever could - for ...
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