Orwell (was Re:Suicide Bombers)

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Sat May 11 11:14:37 PDT 2002



>Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
>> Who with his homophobic rants against the, "pansy left, " (W.H.
>>Auden, Stephen
>>Spender, Christopher Isherwood), isn't very PC either.
>> See, George Orwell," by Raymond Williasms in the Penguin/Viking Modern
>>Masters series, published about 1970 and, "orwell;The Politics of a Literary
>>Reputation, " by John Rodden, Oxford Univ. Press.
>
>Or Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the
>World of Arts and Letters:

"In his entire output I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness -- a very thuggish attack on the poetry of W.H. Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in some later essays. The truth is that he disliked Auden's homosexuality, and could not get over his prejudice. But much of the interest of Orwell lies in the fact that he was born prejudiced, so to speak, against Jews and the colored peoples of the empire, and against the poor and uneducated, and against women and intellectuals, and managed in a transparent and unique way to educate himself out of this fog of bigotry. (Though he never did get over his aversion to "pansies.")"

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/02/24/cover-hitchens.shtml



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