{"id":24034,"date":"2025-10-29T14:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/?p=24034"},"modified":"2025-10-29T14:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:03:44","slug":"orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London: Penguin Books 2019<br \/>\n272 pages<br \/>\nISBN 978-0-241-37196-1<\/p>\n<p>Post hau ingelesez dago.<\/p>\n<p>The next<strong> Donostia Book Club<\/strong> selection is one of the most imaginative and boundary-breaking novels in English literature: <strong>Virginia Woolf<\/strong>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liburubila.euskadi.eus\/Record\/000001728311\/?loc=locality_B-G0300&amp;lng=eu#holdings\">Orlando: A Biography<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Published in 1928, <em>Orlando<\/em> tells the story of a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who mysteriously lives for over three hundred years. Not inly this, partway through the book, Orlando wakes up as a woman. Orlando continues through the centuries, witnessing the changing fashions, politics, and literary styles of England, while reflecting on what it means to live, love, and create. Even today it\u2019s feels strikingly modern and innovative.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Woolf called the book a \u201cbiography,\u201d but it\u2019s really more of a literary game. The narrator treats Orlando as a real person, with mock-serious asides and footnotes, yet everything about the story is delightfully impossible. Through this playful structure, Woolf questions how we define identity, history, and truth. An interesting fact is that the novel was inspired by Woolf\u2019s close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, and many readers see it as Woolf\u2019s affectionate tribute to her. Vita\u2019s family home, Knole, even appears in the novel under another name.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to join the meeting on November 3rd at 19:00 and\/or discuss the book below are some questions we\u2019ll try to answer. Exceptionally the meeting will be held in <strong>Sala Duque De Mandas<\/strong> (entrance from Plaza de la Constituci\u00f3n).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How does Woolf blend centuries of English culture and writing into one life story?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What does the novel say about how writers express themselves across different eras?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is the narrator&#8217;s role in Virginia Woolf&#8217;s Orlando?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is the nature of the relationship between Orlando and Queen Elizabeth I?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How is Orlando&#8217;s relationship with Sasha a strike against conformity?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What are the benefits of cross-dressing as evidenced in Orlando?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do Orlando&#8217;s long stretches of sleep advance the narrative?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How does Orlando&#8217;s reaction to her transformation in Chapter 3 reflect Virginia Woolf&#8217;s own view of gender and identity?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What changes for Orlando after the transformation, and what stays the same?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do Orlando&#8217;s views about poets change after she meets the literary giants of the 18th century?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How do Orlando&#8217;s thoughts about fame change over time?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What do light and darkness represent in Virginia Woolf&#8217;s Orlando?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">How does the narrator&#8217;s reaction to the year Orlando spends writing reflect the sexism of the Victorian era?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">What is significant about the birth of Orlando&#8217;s son and his subsequent disappearance from Orlando?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the questions were taken from https:\/\/biblioteques.l-h.cat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: Penguin Books 2019 272 pages ISBN 978-0-241-37196-1 Post hau ingelesez dago. The next Donostia Book Club selection is one of the most imaginative and boundary-breaking novels in English literature: Virginia Woolf\u2019s Orlando: A Biography. Published in 1928, Orlando tells the story of a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who mysteriously lives for over three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eleberria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24034"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24062,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24034\/revisions\/24062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogak.donostiakultura.eus\/liburu-dantza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}