Mabbett, Terry
“I’m convinced that most of Orwell’s work, especially the fiction, contains mythological projections of himself” There was a kind of contrivance about it. He knew the rules. He was an old Etonian. On one occasion, when he invited an oldSpanish Civil Warcomrade to come and have supper...
So then does that mean we all have to become “political writers,” like George Orwell or write overtly allegorical fiction like Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in an effort to school our readers on some political, social, economic, or religious stance? No. Of course not. But I maintain that no matte...
and weigh eleven stone; while a Frenchman is five feet four and does not weigh nine. The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat. You are a different and superior animal – a French