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In the second of our summer round-ups, we revisit Richard Smyth discussing the life and the work of the naturalist Ronald Blythe; and Lucasta Miller on an extraordinary collection of commonplace books.
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This week David discusses George Orwell’s ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ (1941), his great wartime essay about what it does – and doesn’t – mean to be English. How did the English manage to resist fascism? How are the English going to defeat fascism? These were two different questions with two very different answers: hypocrisy and socialism. David takes the story from there to Brexit and back again.
For more on Orwell from the LRB:
Samuel Hynes on Orwell and politics
‘He was not, in fact, really a political thinker at all: he had no ideology, he proposed no plan of political action, and he was never able to relate himself comfortably to any political party.’
Julian Symons on Orwell and fame
‘If George Orwell had died in 1939 he would be recorded in literary histories of the period as an interesting maverick who wrote some not very successful novels.’
Terry Eagleton on Orwell and experience
‘Orwell detested those, mostly on the left, who theorised about situations without having experienced them, a common empiricist prejudice. There is no need to have your legs chopped off to sympathise with the legless.’
More from the History of Ideas:
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Ouça a segunda parte da entrevista histórica de 1976 de Clarice Lispector para Marina Colasanti, Affonso Romano de Sant'Anna e João Salgueiro. O biógrafo Benjamin Moser e a editora Mariana Delfini ainda comentam os bastidores. Apoie o 451 MHz: https://bit.ly/Assine451
In the first of our seasonal round-ups, we look back at Stephen Marche on the agonies of the writing life; and Nat Segnit dives into Adam Gopnik's survey of mastery.
'On writing and failure: Or, the peculiar perseverance required to
endure the life of a writer', by Stephen Marche
'The real work: On the mystery of mastery', by Adam Gopnik
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