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vahine's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
“(…) parecia haver alguma ambiguidade em seus termos, pois estava censurando ambos os sexos igualmente, como se não pertencesse a nenhum; (…) parecia vacilar; era homem; era mulher; conhecia os segredos e partilhava as fraquezas de cada um. Era o mais desconcertante e atordoante estado de espírito. Os consolos da ignorância pareciam-lhe proibidos.”
“Futilidade vãs, como parecem, as roupas têm - dizem eles- funções ais importantes do que simplesmente nos aquecer. Elas mudam nossa visão do mundo e a visão do mundo sobre nós(…). Assim, pode-se sustentar o ponto de vista de que são as roupas que nos usam, e não nós que as usamos. (…) algo que acontece com muita gente sem ser assim tão claramente expresso. Pois aqui novamente chegamos a um dilema. Embora os sexos sejam diferentes, eles se confundem. Em cada ser humano ocorre uma vacilação de um ser para o outro. E frequentemente são apenas as roupas que mantêm a aparência masculina ou feminina, enquanto interiormente o sexo é aquele oposto ao que está à vista.
sean_burciago's review against another edition
challenging
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
meggriffin88's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
2.25
totalum's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
lucyatoz's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Orlando by Virginia Woolf was an intriguing and surreal book to read.
Spanning just over 400 years, from 1500 to the late 1920's, it tells the story of Orlando in different times, places and genders! It is, at times, melodramatic, then philosophical, light hearted and then very intense. There are elements of it that I did not like, such as the racial slurs used, however, this was the language used at the times depicted and when it was written.
It is a very cleverly crafted story which has stood the test of time and is, in it way, a masterpiece of writing. However, the way that the ending was left was somewhat disappointing and left me feeling a little underwhelmed when the rest of the book had so much to say.
I own a copy of this book and listened to it on BorrowBox. I read this for prompt 29, published in a year of the Dragon (1928), for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024.
Spanning just over 400 years, from 1500 to the late 1920's, it tells the story of Orlando in different times, places and genders! It is, at times, melodramatic, then philosophical, light hearted and then very intense. There are elements of it that I did not like, such as the racial slurs used, however, this was the language used at the times depicted and when it was written.
It is a very cleverly crafted story which has stood the test of time and is, in it way, a masterpiece of writing. However, the way that the ending was left was somewhat disappointing and left me feeling a little underwhelmed when the rest of the book had so much to say.
I own a copy of this book and listened to it on BorrowBox. I read this for prompt 29, published in a year of the Dragon (1928), for the 52 Book Club Reading Challenge 2024.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs and Racism
francescazksxmc's review against another edition
5.0
Let him leave books, they said, to the palsied or the dying. But worse was to come. For once the disease of reading has laid hold upon the system it weakens it so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the inkpot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.
"Orlando" may have just changed the way I think about the novel form and the way a writer might manipulate time and social construct and tradition to their favour. Woolf, writing with beautiful and measured prose, weaves Vita Sackville-West (Orlando's inspiration) into a satirical timeline of English literature and literary tradition, moulding Orlando to suit every period they live through, but being sure to never let them feel entirely at peace.
For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more that we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.
This novel is a study of identity: of gender, of literature, of tradition, of sexuality, change, perception, expression, prejudice, the written word, culture wars, romance, and expectation.
"Orlando" may have just changed the way I think about the novel form and the way a writer might manipulate time and social construct and tradition to their favour. Woolf, writing with beautiful and measured prose, weaves Vita Sackville-West (Orlando's inspiration) into a satirical timeline of English literature and literary tradition, moulding Orlando to suit every period they live through, but being sure to never let them feel entirely at peace.
For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more that we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.
This novel is a study of identity: of gender, of literature, of tradition, of sexuality, change, perception, expression, prejudice, the written word, culture wars, romance, and expectation.
tumormozgowicz's review against another edition
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
hakkun1's review against another edition
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
applechen's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Content Note: In diesem Roman kommen das N- und das Z-Wort vor und es wird Kolonialismus (unreflektiert) thematisiert.
Abgesehen von dem Rassismus, der leider zum Entstehungszeitpunkt dieses Romans im Jahr 1928 ein Spiegel der damaligen Gesellschaft ist bzw. zum historischen Kontext dieses Buches gehört, hat mir "Orlando" gut gefallen - insbesondere nachdem ich über das dröge erste Drittel endlich hinweg war. Virginia Woolf reflektiert in dieser fiktiven Biografie erstaunlich progressiv und kritisch die Literaturgeschichte und Vorstellungen von Genderrollen. Orlando erlebt sein/ihr Geschlecht über die Jahrhunderte hinweg immer in Auseinandersetzung mit den jeweiligen Gesellschaftsstrukturen und verhandelt diese dabei teilweise sehr ironisch und lustig. Das hat mir alles wirklich sehr gut gefallen!
Ich bin jetzt stolz, dass ich mich durch diesen feministischen Klassiker durchgequält habe 💪
Abgesehen von dem Rassismus, der leider zum Entstehungszeitpunkt dieses Romans im Jahr 1928 ein Spiegel der damaligen Gesellschaft ist bzw. zum historischen Kontext dieses Buches gehört, hat mir "Orlando" gut gefallen - insbesondere nachdem ich über das dröge erste Drittel endlich hinweg war. Virginia Woolf reflektiert in dieser fiktiven Biografie erstaunlich progressiv und kritisch die Literaturgeschichte und Vorstellungen von Genderrollen. Orlando erlebt sein/ihr Geschlecht über die Jahrhunderte hinweg immer in Auseinandersetzung mit den jeweiligen Gesellschaftsstrukturen und verhandelt diese dabei teilweise sehr ironisch und lustig. Das hat mir alles wirklich sehr gut gefallen!
Ich bin jetzt stolz, dass ich mich durch diesen feministischen Klassiker durchgequält habe 💪
yorha_'s review against another edition
I was so excited to read this and knew I’d love it but the writing style is just really not for me. It’s flowery and overwritten, and goes on for too long about nothing. I enjoy what I’ve read but I do not enjoy the experience of reading it, if that makes any sense? Which just makes me sad but I’ve dreaded going back to it for 2 weeks so I’m just going to let this one go.