To: Petronski; NucSubs
Orwell’s essays are great. Orwell’s fiction (if Animal Farm and 1984 are any indication) is crude and journalistic. I can agree with the ideas in 1984 but that doesn’t make it great literary art. You can extract its ideas and dispense with the book entirely.
33 posted on
01/28/2010 10:57:47 AM PST by
Borges
To: Borges
Well I didn't much care for Animal Farm, I think the spare, almost-gaunt prose in Nineteen Eighty-four establishes mood and fits well with the underlying themes of the destruction of soul and individuality--even language itself.
37 posted on
01/28/2010 11:06:49 AM PST by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: Borges
Sorry, but I think Animal Farm is a work of genius in less than 100 pages. And 1984 is superb, with phrases that will be immortal.
To: Borges
Too each his own I guess. Taste and “art” are subjective.
If you replaced “Orwell” with “Rand” I’d agree.
81 posted on
02/08/2010 4:43:14 PM PST by
NucSubs
( Cognitive dissonance: Conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistency between beliefs and actions)
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