Walter Pfeiffer
Orlando, the fictional main character of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel and Sally Potter’s 1992 film adaptation, starts life in the Elizabethan era as a failed male poet. But at the story’s end, because of a magical pact and an unexplainable act of gender transformation, Orlando is alive and well in the book’s and film’s respective present days, just beginning to find success as a female writer.
Though it
