Thanks also to the other people who've sent me one or off list links and recommendations.
Catherine
Quoting andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>:
> 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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-- Dr Catherine Driscoll Dept of Gender & Cultural Studies School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry University of Sydney Sydney NSW 2006 Phone (61-2) 90369503
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