Becoming George Orwell : life and letters, legend and legacy /
"Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden's provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of hi...
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| Idioma: | inglês |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
[2020]
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| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvc77d2x |
Sumário:
- Prologue. Donald and Winston at the ministry of alternative facts
- Introduction. Orwell, my "Orwell"
- Part 1. Life and letters
- The quixotic, adamantly unsainted life he lived
- Frenemies at fisticuffs? The debate rounds of two cordially contentious old Etonians
- The literary breakthrough, or when Blair became Orwell
- Orwell's twin masterpieces, Animal farm and Nineteen eighty-four
- A "utopian" edition of a dystopian classic
- England's prose laureate
- Part 2. Legend and legacy
- French connection, part 1: Jean Malaquais, a "French Orwell"?
- French connection, part 2: Camus and Orwell, Rebelles avec une cause
- How and why Orwell became "a famous author": surfing the tides of time
- "Catholic exceptionalism": why Catholic America canonized "St. George"
- "Orwellian" warfare: from cold to cyber
- Why I am not a socialist
- Conclusion. Whither Orwell
- and "Orwell"?