[lbo-talk] Re: Orwell

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Raymond Williams wrote a strong attack on Orwell in a
little book, and Isaac Deutscher has a  brilliant
essay critiquing 1984, or its misuses -- it's
collected variously, I think in a still-in-print Verso
anthology of his work. For what it is worth, I
personally always thought (a) that Orwell is generally
a wonderful writer and (rather crankily) One Of Us;
(b) Animal Farm is heavy handed, obvious, overrated,
and now dated and obsolete (though with a nice touch,
about some animals being more equal than others), but
(c) 1984 is a great book, and cannot be dismissed as a
mere anti-Communist screed. There is just too much of
it that rings too true for us. Newspeak. Doublethink.
Miniluv, etc. jks

--- Tahir Wood <twood at uwc.ac.za> wrote:
> Although I know this conversation has been
> circumnavigated saeveral
> times, 
> could someone give me a direction to critiques of
> Orwell-as-
> Progressive/Left/YouKnow. 
> Thanks
> Catherine (the weather here remains tolerable)
> 
> You may not be interested in this one, but I
> suddenly recall reading a
> critique of Orwell called 1985, by Anthony Burgess -
> it's a critique
> from the right and I hated it, but just thought I'd
> mention it.
> Tahir
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