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Key ideas from the book
- Aline’s encounter with Orlanda brings her suppressed memories and desires into view.
- The novel explores how childhood demands can shape a person’s sense of self.
- Aline’s growing assertiveness contrasts with the passivity she has adopted.
- Orlanda’s connection to Aline raises questions about identity and inner life.
- The story engages with Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.
About Orlanda by Jacqueline Harpman
At a Paris train station, literature professor Aline Berger is trying to reread Virginia Woolf’s Orlando when she encounters Orlanda, a young man whose presence unsettles her carefully conventional life. Orlanda inhabits the body of Lucien Lèfrene, but carries Aline’s memories, knowledge and desires—including the parts of herself she learned to silence.
When Aline and Orlanda meet again in Belgium, Aline begins to act with a confidence she had long suppressed, while the two find themselves increasingly drawn to one another. Winner of the Prix Médicis, Harpman’s novel will interest readers of literary fiction concerned with identity, desire and the complex relationship between the self and its hidden impulses, as well as readers curious about its dialogue with Woolf’s Orlando.
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