Orwell's victory

著者

• Hitchens, Christopher

書誌事項

Orwell's victory

Christopher Hitchens

Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 2002

• : pbk

内容説明・目次

内容説明

'Thomas Carlyle wrote of his CROMWELL that he had had to drag him out from under a mound of dead dogs and offal before being able to set him up as a figure worthy of biography. This is not a biography, but I sometimes feel as if George Orwell requires extricating from under a pile of saccharine tablets and moist hankies...' There can be few writers in the world today with a better claim to have inherited Orwell's role than Christopher Hitchens with his unique ability to spot bullshit and enrage those in power. WHY ORWELL MATTERS is a spectacularly written, aggressive, brilliant defence of one of the handful of modern writers whose view of the world has become if anything even more essential in the half century since his death.

目次

• Introduction - the figure
• Orwell and empire
• Orwell and the left
• Orwell and the right
• Orwell and America
• Orwell and "Englishness" - the antinomies of St. George
• Orwell and the feminists - difficulties with girls
• "the list"
• generosity and anger - the novels
• deconstructing the post-modernists - Orwell and transparency
• in conclusion.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA60220836
• ISBN:
  • 071399584X
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 149 p.
• 大きさ: 22 cm
• 分類:
  • DC21 : 823.912
• 件名:
  • BLSH : Orwell, George, 1903-1950 -- Criticism and interpretation