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Bezig met laden... Essays (Penguin) (1984)door George Orwell
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. A heavyweight collection of essays from one of the 20th century's most perceptive writers. The forty-one selections included here range from the political ones and discussions of literature to miscellany like 'Shooting an Elephant' and reminiscences about his boarding-school years (which was surprisingly interesting). The political and language-based ones are of the standard you would expect from the writer of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, and Orwell was so astonishingly clear in his analyses that many of them remain essential in 2019 – perhaps even more so than they were in the 1940s. The other essays vary in interest and contemporary usefulness – though the vast majority are excellent – and their presence makes for a more harmonious sequencing when reading the book through. Orwell had a fascinating mind and he was a true individual; these qualities ensure his non-fiction writing here is more readable than many other writers' fiction. ( ) Brilliant! The second time I read this and it will probably not be the last. I am giving only 4 stars instead of the 5 that it actually deserves because his obsession with fascism and socialism sometimes distorted what would have otherwise been very insightful observations. An example would be in "Raffles and Miss Blandish". Given the times when these essays were written though, my judgement is likely unfair. The back cover of my copy contains the blurb: "Anyone who wants to understand the twentieth century will still have to read Orwell." To me however, it contained some very interesting insights into specifically the english psyche. Orwell tells it as he sees it, with amazing clarity and command of language. The essays that made me think were: Politics and the English Language Shooting an Elephant Inside the Whale The Lion and the Unicorn Benefit of Clergy; Some Notes on Salvador Dali Antisemitism in Britain Notes on Nationalism The Sporting Spirit Writers and Leviathan Oh that he were around today to explain the state of affairs to us! "Shooting an Elephant" is the best narrative essay I have ever read. He surpasses what most fiction writers could ever aspire to evoke in their writing, and he does so in a few pages... "A Hanging" & "Marrakech" are other highlights. His sense for place, his choice of the perfect concrete detail to impress on the reader, is astounding... "Inside the Whale" should also be required reading for fiction writers. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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The articles collected in George Orwell's Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell's longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes 'My Country Right or Left', 'Decline of the English Murder', 'Shooting an Elephant' and 'A Hanging'. With great originality and wit Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defence of English cooking. Displaying an almost unrivalled mastery of English plain prose, Orwell's essays created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and continue to challenge, move and entertain. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Bernard Crick. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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