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Waarom ik schrijf: Verhalende essays

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George Orwell was in de eerste plaats een essayist. Van 1928 tot aan zijn vroegtijdige dood in 1950 produceerde hij een buitengewone reeks beschouwingen waarin hij zijn licht liet schijnen op de beladen tijd waarin hij leefde en schreef. Deze verzameling bevat klassiekers zoals ‘Waarom ik schrijf’ en ‘Een olifant omleggen’ alsook minder bekende journalistieke artikelen, analyses en herinneringen. Of het nu gaat om de gruwelen van Orwells jongensjaren in een Engels internaat, de observaties die hij deed als boekverkoper of de bezienswaardigheden, geluiden en geuren van de Spaanse Burgeroorlog, deze verhalende essays verweven het persoonlijke en het politieke in Orwells unieke, glasheldere, tijdloze stijl.Deze uitgave is voorzien van een voorwoord van Hein Aalders.‘Het storende van Orwell lezen op de camping is dat je er voortdurend zin van krijgt om politiek actief te worden... Zijn beste essays zijn beter geschreven dan zijn beste romans.’ – Arjen van Veelen

336 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 27, 2020

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George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both fascism and stalinism), and support of democratic socialism.

Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.

Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.

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