As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important ...
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved back and forth across the porous borders between essay and journalism, high art and low. A frequent commentator on literature, language, film, and drama throughout his career, Orwell turned increasingly to the critical essay in the 1940s, when his most important experiences were behind him and some of his most incisive writing lay ahead.
All Art Is Propaganda follows Orwell as he demonstrates in piece after piece how intent analysis of a work or body of work gives rise to trenchant aesthetic and philosophical commentary. With masterpieces such as "Politics and the English Language" and "Rudyard Kipling" and gems such as "Good Bad Books," here is an unrivaled education in, as George Packer puts it, "how to be interesting, line after line."
GEORGE ORWELL (1903–1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works.
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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. There is always a new tyrant waiting to take over from the old—generally not quite so bad, but still a tyrant. Consequently two viewpoints are always tenable.The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? The other, what is the use of changing the system before you have improved human nature? They appeal to different individuals, and they probably show a tendency to alternate in point of time. The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash.
But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is... (查看原文)
though not a must-read, it is very worth reading. besides, it mentions other books at and before his time. Those books are mainly in the public domain, and have suvived through time.This is another me...though not a must-read, it is very worth reading. besides, it mentions other books at and before his time. Those books are mainly in the public domain, and have suvived through time.This is another merit of this book.(展开)
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0 有用 晏如 2014-08-11 17:01:01
though not a must-read, it is very worth reading. besides, it mentions other books at and before his time. Those books are mainly in the public domain, and have suvived through time.This is another me... though not a must-read, it is very worth reading. besides, it mentions other books at and before his time. Those books are mainly in the public domain, and have suvived through time.This is another merit of this book. (展开)
1 有用 rachel 2016-07-25 12:44:56
真的没有想象中的好，哪里都是浅尝辄止，公众学术明星和真正烧脑研究员的区别再次暴露出来
0 有用 书迷 2024-05-23 18:28:06 广东
五本奥威尔散文集，全读完了。感觉意犹未尽。准备再读二本报告文学，欧根码头之路和向加泰罗尼亚致意。
0 有用 Schadenfreude 2020-04-28 05:05:25
George orwell是公认的20世界英语写作最好的人，反复揣摩模仿他的英语，可以达到神界