[lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....)

[Catherine Driscoll]

At 03:34 PM 22/03/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>>Obviously any significant critique of Orwell as a writer/thinker in general
>>should consider all his work, and some of critics even amongst what I've read
>>clearly have read Catalonia, Williams included. But there's a place for a
>>critique of Animal Farm, for example
>
>There is? I would understand somebody saying that there's a place for a 
>critique of the Soviet Union, or of Stalin. But a critique of _Animal 
>Farm_? What's to critique? (Besides, that is, the declaration that Stalin 
>on the one hand and Truman and Attlee on the other are morally equivalent.)

Of course there is. Or are you saying literary texts are utterly 
unimportant in their own right or in the ways they are deployed?

Catherine