内容简介

Virginia Woolf's exuberant `biography' tells the story of the cross-dressing, sex-changing Orlando who begins life as a young noble in the sixteenth century and moves through numerous historical and geographical worlds to finish as a modern woman writer in the 1920s. The book is in part a happy tribute to the `life' that her love for Vita Sackville-West had breathed into Virginia Woolf's own day-to-day existence; it is also Woolf's light-hearted and light-handed teasing out of the assumptions that lie behind the normal conventions for writing about a fictional or historical life. In this novel, Virginia Woolf plays loose and fast: Orlando uncovers a literary and sexual revolution overnight.

作者简介

弗吉尼亚·吴尔夫（Virginia Woolf，1882—1941），英国女作家，被誉为二十世纪现代主义与女性主义文学的先锋。第二次世界大战期间，她是伦敦文学界的核心人物，是布卢姆茨伯里派的成员之一。最知名的小说包括《达洛维太太》、《到灯塔去》、《雅各的房间》等。

吴尔夫革新了英语语言，在小说中尝试意识流的写作方法，试图描绘在人们心底里的潜意识。她在文学上的成就和创造性至今仍然产生很大的影响。

精彩摘录

1.一切情感的极致，都与疯狂相连

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2.“贫穷也罢，无知也罢，它们本来就是女人遮身蔽体的外衣，这世界不妨留给别人去治理；军事野心、迷恋权力，以及男人其他的一切欲望，都可以抛到脑后，只要能够更充分地享受人类精神所知晓的最崇高的愉悦，”她大声说，她深受感动时总是这样，“那就是冥思、隐居、爱情。”

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