Lord Orlando, a young English courtier with literary aspirations, one day wakes up to discover that he has become a woman. His true essence remains the same, but Lady Orlando's life changes radically: on one hand, she must face the prejudices of the time, but on the other, she acquires the gift of immortality. Orlando lives for more than 300 years but only appears to age until 36, making her a witness to a changing world that serves as Virginia Woolf's excuse to present us with a refined parody of the biographical genre and a brutal satire of sexism. We are faced with an immortal work in every sense, a love letter to literature, sexual freedom, and life. The most optimistic novel by one of the most brilliant and revolutionary minds of the 20th century.
Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was one of the central figures of 20th-century literary modernism. Daughter of the critic and historian Leslie Stephen, she grew up in a deeply intellectual environment that shaped her education from a very young age. She soon became one of the most influential voices of the so-called Bloomsbury Group, a decisive circle in British cultural renewal, where she developed her interest in feminism, aesthetic experimentation, and new ways of narrating inner experience.
During the 1920s, together with Leonard Woolf, she founded the publishing house Hogarth Press, through which she promoted both her own work and that of key authors of her time. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse transformed contemporary narrative through their exploration of consciousness and subjective time. In 1941, after several depressive episodes worsened by the context of World War II in the United Kingdom, she took her own life. Her work remains an essential reference in modern literature.
