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John's avatar

Interesting piece and great idea to publish it in the context of this serialisation. Food for thought and reflection.

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Kevin Plunkett's avatar

Intriguing and nuanced discussion of the complicated view of Orwell and the Jewish community. It was an interesting read to say the very least. But I can’t help pointing out that the view of a biographer is hardly identical to the experience of the individual reader who enters into a dialogic relationship with everything they read. And it seems reasonable that a 21st century reader might well connect some Orwell passages discussed in this essay with contemporary concepts such as tacit prejudice. This in the end is what makes past literature alive and relevant. It’s ability to speak to us not just of a past time but our own.

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