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   > On 30 avr, 04:15, "P.S.Burton"  wrote:   
   >> On 29 Apr, 11:39, "ROBBIE"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > "P.S.Burton"  wrote in message   
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   >> >news:1177328542.359689.270810@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >> > > with Michael Foot on Friday. He is a lovely, lovely man and sharp as   
   >> > > a   
   >> > > tack. His favourite Orwell is Homage to Catalonia.   
   >>   
   >> > Anyway, come on, spill the beans re tea with old Duffel Coat - what are   
   >> > you   
   >> > *at*?   
   >>   
   >> > ROBBIE   
   >>   
   >> ridiculously, he's a friend of a friend. My daughter's best mate was   
   >> round ours for tea one night and her dad came to pick her up. He's a   
   >> history  professor at one of the London universities. Anyway, he had a   
   >> browse though my books whilst I was making the chips and saw the   
   >> portrait of george on the mantel and when I came back he said "you   
   >> know who *you* should meet..."   
   >>   
   >> Michael showed me a lot of his books and press cuttings, including   
   >> some really nice orwell stuff. When I mentioned that I hadn't read the   
   >> patrick reilly book on George he insisted I have his copy. Dashed off   
   >> an inscription and shoved it into my hands even while I was muttering   
   >> things like "too kind" and "really no need". GREAT man.   
   >   
   > Very nice, thanks for spilling the beans. I assume that the book is   
   > George Orwell: The Age's Adversary, the one which Mr. Foot reviewed in   
   > the Guardian a few years ago ("this is a wonderful book, not to be   
   > missed, not a single page of it"). I too like Patrick Reilly's   
   > perspective on Orwell: in his study about Nineteen Eighty-Four he   
   > wrote, "Too many readers still come to it determined to use it as   
   > propaganda for one side or the other, as cold war warrior or bulwark   
   > of socialism. Yet as a novel it resists absorption into the propaganda   
   > machine of any state or sect. It is a fiction, and we must resist the   
   > temptation to treat it as a model of the real world or as echo chamber   
   > for our own political predilections....Orwell's declared aim was to   
   > transform politics into art, and when he decided to write a novel and   
   > not a tract, he was paying homage to the primacy of the creative   
   > imagination. It follows that the meaning of the political concepts   
   > within Nineteen Eighty-Four is defined by the context of the fiction   
   > as a whole and not by the external world. The purpose of this study is   
   > to present Orwell as a great, underrated creative writer who has not   
   > yet received just recognition for what he achieved in Nineteen Eighty-   
   > Four."   
   > B.   
   >   
   >   
      
   VERY pseudy.   
      
   It's all about the world at the time and where Orwell thought it MIGHT go if   
   Man wasn't careful (which he isn't); it is a warning and as literary art it   
   stoops pretty low at times, not so much propaganda as porn. Ronald Firbank   
   it ain't.   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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