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"Free the piggies! The New York Press Reed has captured the state of the farm today. The Fort Myers News-Press A dizzying feat of writing and scholarship. Lynne Tillman One plays this terrifying guessing game of animal a clef: which animal am I? Which animal is my neighbor? Jonathan Ames This book is the first and definitive reassessment of George Orwell, twenty-first century, written by an author at the nexus of Orwell's controversial literary, political and historical legacies. In The Never End, rabble-rouser, dogged investigator, and consummate literary stylist John Reed collects two decades of subject-Orwell findings published in Pank, Guernica, Literary Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus, The New York Press, The Believer, Harpers Magazine and The Paris Review. Reeds treatment of Orwell is corrective and peerlessly contemporary; he views Orwell in a twenty-first century global context, considering Orwells |
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collaboration with Cold War intelligence operations US and UK with unfaltering objectivity. Its hard to imagine that Orwellin our own moment of global double think wouldn't have wanted his devotion to contrariety applied to the literary legacy he left behind. Animal Farm, based on a previously unknown Russian short story? Animal Farm, deployed by the CIA, MI6 and the Congress for Cultural Freedom? Orwell, turning over blacklists in a McCarthy-esque act of betrayal? The Cold War? Does it last forever? Russia, the Axis of Evil, and now China? But. Orwell. Course syllabi. Literary laurels. Snitch. Why do we keep coming back? For the wrong reasons? Or because we know Old Benjamin would want us to know the truth?" -- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | English text, partially translated from the Russian and Ukranian. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9789819907656 |
| Genre/form | Sources. |
| ISBN | 9789819907649 |
| ISBN | 9819907640 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
