If in the last post I gave off the impression that I’m anything but an ardent fan of George Orwell, please allow me to correct myself. 1984 is one of my favorite novels. But recently I’ve become more aware of the less-than-coincidental similarities between that book and the way the modern world is governed. Orwell [...]
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Henry Miller: Prototype For a New Kind of Protest
In the introduction to George Orwell’s Animal Farm, C.M. Woodhouse points out (in a 1954 London Times Literary Supplement) that, in Orwell’s criticism of other authors, “his recurrent theme was their failure to protest against the world they lived in. This is the whole burden of his longest and most serious piece of literary criticism, [...]
