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Orwell
A Man of Our Time
Buch von Richard Bradford
Sprache: Englisch

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A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the age of Brexit, Trump, and populism, even more so. 'Doublethink' features in Nineteen Eighty-Four and it is the forerunner to 'Fake News'. He foresaw the creation of the EU and more significantly he predicted that post-Imperial xenophobia would cause Britain to leave it. His struggle with his own antisemitism could serve as a lesson to today's Labour Party, and, while the Soviet Union is gone, China has taken its place as a totalitarian superpower.

Aside from his importance as a political theorist and novelist, Orwell's life is fascinating in its own right. Caught between uncertainty and his family's upper middle-class complacency, Orwell grew to despise the class system that spawned him despite finding himself unable to fully detach himself from it. His life thereafter mirrored the history of his country; like many from his background, he devoted himself to socialism as a salve to his conscience. In truth he reserved as much suspicion and distaste for the 'proles' as he did pity. He died at the point when Britain's status as an Imperial and world power had waned, but his work remains both prescient and significant.
A vivid portrait of the man behind the writings, placing Orwell and his work at the centre of the current political landscape.

One of the most enduringly popular and controversial writers of the twentieth century, George Orwell's work is as relevant today as it was in his own lifetime. Possibly, in the age of Brexit, Trump, and populism, even more so. 'Doublethink' features in Nineteen Eighty-Four and it is the forerunner to 'Fake News'. He foresaw the creation of the EU and more significantly he predicted that post-Imperial xenophobia would cause Britain to leave it. His struggle with his own antisemitism could serve as a lesson to today's Labour Party, and, while the Soviet Union is gone, China has taken its place as a totalitarian superpower.

Aside from his importance as a political theorist and novelist, Orwell's life is fascinating in its own right. Caught between uncertainty and his family's upper middle-class complacency, Orwell grew to despise the class system that spawned him despite finding himself unable to fully detach himself from it. His life thereafter mirrored the history of his country; like many from his background, he devoted himself to socialism as a salve to his conscience. In truth he reserved as much suspicion and distaste for the 'proles' as he did pity. He died at the point when Britain's status as an Imperial and world power had waned, but his work remains both prescient and significant.
Über den Autor
Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over twenty-five acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year, the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe, a life of Kingsley Amis and a biography of Kingsley's son, Martin. According to The Sunday Times his life of Hemingway is a 'bombshell biography.'

He has written for the Spectator and The Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series 'Writers in their Own Words'. His The Importance of Elsewhere, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme.
Zusammenfassung
MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN: seen on a red baseball cap
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Misfit and the Pure Hell of St Cyprian's
2. Eton
3. Burma
4. Slumming it
5. Was Orwell an Antisemite?
6. Hopeless
7. Books, Marriage, and the Journey North
8. Spain and Serious Politics
9. Between Wars
10. War
11. Explosive Journalism
12. Changes
13. Animal Farm
14. Jura
15. Nineteen Eighty-FourEpilogueBibliographyIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781448217687
ISBN-10: 1448217687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bradford, Richard
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 241 x 158 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Bradford
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2020
Gewicht: 0,624 kg
preigu-id: 117244024
Über den Autor
Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over twenty-five acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year, the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe, a life of Kingsley Amis and a biography of Kingsley's son, Martin. According to The Sunday Times his life of Hemingway is a 'bombshell biography.'

He has written for the Spectator and The Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts Programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 Series 'Writers in their Own Words'. His The Importance of Elsewhere, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme.
Zusammenfassung
MAKE ORWELL FICTION AGAIN: seen on a red baseball cap
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction
1. The Misfit and the Pure Hell of St Cyprian's
2. Eton
3. Burma
4. Slumming it
5. Was Orwell an Antisemite?
6. Hopeless
7. Books, Marriage, and the Journey North
8. Spain and Serious Politics
9. Between Wars
10. War
11. Explosive Journalism
12. Changes
13. Animal Farm
14. Jura
15. Nineteen Eighty-FourEpilogueBibliographyIndex
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781448217687
ISBN-10: 1448217687
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Bradford, Richard
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Maße: 241 x 158 x 35 mm
Von/Mit: Richard Bradford
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.05.2020
Gewicht: 0,624 kg
preigu-id: 117244024
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