Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolfliterary work· published 1928
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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later.
Adaptations (2)
Orlando: A Biography has been adapted into 2 films, from 1992 to 2023. The most recent is Orlando, My Political Biography (2023).
Orlando1992 · film · 94 min · dir. Sally Potter · IMDb ↗England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Orlando, My Political Biography2023 · film · 98 min · dir. Paul B. Preciado · IMDb ↗IMDb7.094%Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando: A Biography" follows the centuries-spanning life of a young nobleman who awakens to find that they are a woman. Almost a century after its publication, Paul B. Preciado claims that fiction has become reality and Orlando's story lies at the root of all contemporary trans and non-binary life.
