Why was this guy such a brainlet and why is he so revered?hoa can you be a socialist especially after his two criticically acclaimed books. And then be so two faced also as to sell out socialists in america? Literally enforcing what his books were against.
And his prose is horrendous. His attempts at "real prose" in the clergymans daughter and keep the aphidasatra flying are laughable.
How can someone so dull, hypocritical, downright evil, and so poor at writing be so praised?
>how can anyone call themselves a socialist while criticising tyrany that calls itself socialist
>aphidasatra
What did he mean by this?
So you’ve finally figured out Orwell
I'm convinced that people who use Twitter are low IQ. I never used it once. Never browsed it. I see discussions like this and am amazed at the stupidity. And this is coming from someone who thinks Orwell is a total brainlet.
Haha, eat shit commie.
>Literally enforcing what his books were against.
His books were never against socialism, only tyranny. It's pretty well known that Orwell was a democratic socialist. He even fought for the Anarcho-syndicalists in the Spanish revolution of 1936. I'm assuming you mean 1984 and Animal Farm when you say his books were anti-socialist. But both of those books are critical of capitalism. In Animal Farm the humans (capitalists) were just as bad as the pigs (communist tyrants); the book was trying to allegorise how the rulers of the USSR became just as oppressive as the capitalists. 1984 also talks extensively about class divisions, and how the proles were utterly powerless.
Because Anarchism.
Alright, now I know who I’m dealing with, this was from a thread posted on here not too long ago.
Mediocre writer, insignificant thinker, hypocrite, downright pedantic cunt
>prose
Is not the problem. His fiction is bad at character work - Aspidista especially is mediocre. On the other hand if you think the prose in Homage to Catalonia or the Road to Wigan Pier is bad then you really can't know what you're talking about.
Orwell critiques for Dickens lack of real nonplatitude political position but his essentially amount to "let the poor have money and freedom to no work and if left alone with no government everyone will sort out fine"
>hypocrite
???
Wheres the stupidity in that exchange
Thats no small stance to take.
>Wheres the stupidity in that exchange
Sure. But its lalaland in terms of functional policy and comes off very childlike
anyone else begin to dislike orwell after reading more? he begins to feel more like poverty voyeur than any serious writer. the equivalent as the modern people now who go into ghettoes to sneakily record black people arguing or at a gas station.
He talks up Gissing a lot. Is he worth reading
Yeah where?
To be fair Huxley's brother was a eugenecist and he was probably whatever was pre-MKULTRA
If you have to ask than that means you possess the stupidity in that exchange and therefore blind to it. Explaining it to you will only lead to you either denying the stupidity present or flying into a rage at the idea that what is present there is stupidity.
He has the sort of virtues Orwell wants. His psychology is convincing, he's good on social issues and doesn't back off to achieve cheap sentimental gains. Compared to the other social novel type Victorians (Dickens, Eliot, Thackeray) he's intellectually subtler. Only all of those writers have top end descriptive skills which he doesn't. What do you want from a book?
>His prose is horrendous
His prose is 10/10 I'm guessing you're a burger though who prefers four letter words
Oh just defend your statement and quit nancying around.
The guy fought in the POUM, give him some credit.
>I like to talk out of my ass and then respond with "oh you just dont understand" when called out on my bullshit
Dont worry, you'll grow out of that once you hit 17 or so.
Orwell’s prose is crap and he knew it (read his letters and reviews).
Many people could write a better description of how to wipe your arse in a coal mine. The point with Orwell was that in the 1930s he was the only one willing to do so. Or to wipe your cock in the clergymans daughter.
>Though representing himself as a spokesman for the common man, he often appeared out of place with real working people. His brother-in-law Humphrey Dakin, a "Hail fellow, well met" type, who took him to a local pub in Leeds, said that he was told by the landlord: "Don't bring that bugger in here again."
>"He was awfully likely to knock things off tables, trip over things. I mean, he was a gangling, physically badly co-ordinated young man. I think his feeling [was] that even the inanimate world was against him."
>One biography of Orwell accused him of having had an authoritarian streak.[185] In Burma, he struck out at a Burmese boy who, while "fooling around" with his friends, had "accidentally bumped into him" at a station, resulting in Orwell falling "heavily" down some stairs.[186] One of his former pupils recalled being beaten so hard he could not sit down for a week.
A walking cliché of a commie
Its not