Catherine Driscoll wrote:
> I know tons of pro-Orwell stuff, not that I'm
> not interested, but it's a perspective I do
> have rather than anything new. I've read the
> books. But you seem to be wrong about the list,
> I've had five replies and not a single anti-
> Orwell tract.
>
> I was sure I'd seen some extended debate about
> what's wrong with Orwell here, but maybe I'm
> mixing it up with a different list.
Hmm. Funny, I had the same impression as you.
You could look up Hitchens' book and backtrack from there. I'd give you the titles of critical pieces from the left, but I'm away from my books at the moment. The book is called Why Orwell Matters, and the relevant chapter is titled "Orwell and the Left", or something similar.
Hitchens writes on "the list" later in his book. His zeal for Orwell gets the better of him, and he tries to exonerate his hero.
-- Shane
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