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Virginia Woolf wrote Orlando as an experimental biography that challenged conventions of genre and identity. Through its fantastical elements of Orlando changing sex and living for over 400 years, the book undermines the idea that biography can truly capture the essence of a life. Woolf believed that focusing too much on facts obscured the subjective experiences she sought to represent. She also used Orlando to reflect her intimate relationship with Vita Sackville-West and demonstrate her view that gender s
- Author
- Jack Callil
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- EN