Orlando | Techniques/Literary Precedents
Virginia Woolf dedicated this novel to her eccentric and charismatic friend, Vita Sackville-West, whose Sapphic tendencies intrigued Woolf throughout their friendship. Orlando is an historical fantasy and literary pastiche which parodies, among other texts, Sackville-West's own The Land (1927).
As in all of Woolf's novels, she creates a radical use of time; some critics have pointed out that Woolf develops her concept from the contemporary writers Henri Bergson and Marcel Proust. Time is simply a measure of the duration of the individual, of the accretion of the past;...
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