Or Orwell: Writing and Democratic Socialism by Alex Woloch
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Overview: There have been many studies of George Orwell’s life and work, but nothing quite like this book by Alex Woloch an exuberant, revisionary account of Orwell’s writing.
“Good prose is like a window-pane,” Orwell famously avers. But what kind of literary criticism is possible, face-to-face with Orwell’s plain-style prose? Too often this style has been either dismissed by a seemingly more savvy critical theory, or held up as a reprimand against the enterprise of theory. In a series of unusually close and intensive readings focused on the unstable event of writing itself Woloch recovers the radical and experimental energies of Orwell’s prose. Against accounts that would quickly naturalize Orwell’s truthfulness or reduce his window-pane prose to bad faith, Woloch’s study bears down on a propulsive irony and formal restlessness that have always been intertwined with Orwell’s plain-style. Such restlessness, far from diluting Orwell’s democratic and socialist politics, is at its aesthetic and conceptual core.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Literary Criticism, Literary History
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