5/13/2023 0 Comments Orwell nationalism![]() ![]() George Orwell was born Eric Blair in India in 1903 into a comfortable ‘lower-upper-middle class’ family. George Orwell is one of the world’s most influential writers, the visionary author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four and eyewitness, non-fiction classics Down and Out in Paris in London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience.” I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. ![]() “My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. Home / About / About George Orwell About George Orwell ![]()
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