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The Unexamined Orwell (Paperback, New)
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The Unexamined Orwell (Paperback, New)
Series: Literary Modernism
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George
Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public
discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and
privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's
work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his
literary generation are long forgotten. Exploring this astonishing
afterlife has become the scholarly vocation of John Rodden, who is
now the leading authority on the reception, impact, and reinvention
of George Orwell-the man and writer-as well as of "Orwell" the
cultural icon and historical talisman. In The Unexamined Orwell,
Rodden delves into dimensions of Orwell's life and legacy that have
escaped the critical glare. Rodden discusses how several leading
American intellectuals have earned the title of Orwell's
"successor," including Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald, Irving
Howe, Christopher Hitchens, and John Lukacs. He then turns to
Germany and focuses on the role and relevance of Nineteen
Eighty-Four in the now-defunct communist nation of East Germany.
Rodden also addresses myths that have grown up around Orwell's
life, including his "more than half-legendary" encounter with
Ernest Hemingway in liberated Paris in March 1945, and analyzes
literary issues such as his utopian sensibility and his prose
style. Finally, Rodden poses the endlessly debated question, "What
Would George Orwell Do?," and speculates about how the prophet of
Nineteen Eighty-Four would have reacted to world events. In so
doing, Rodden shows how our responses to this question reveal much
about our culture's ongoing need to reappropriate "Orwell."
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