4/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky (Author)
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
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4/4: The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War by Peter Stansky (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Socialist-Patriot-George-Orwell-War/dp/150363549X
An incisive demonstration of how Orwell's body of work was defined by the four major conflicts that punctuated his life: World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Cold War. Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at once responded to and sought to influence the tumultuous times in which he lived—decades during which Europe and eventually the entire world would be torn apart by war, while ideologies like fascism, socialism, and communism changed the stakes of global politics.
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| 0:40.0 | George Orwell, whose given name is Eric Blair, but the |
| 0:44.2 | the Namdegare he takes upon himself early in his writing career |
| 0:48.5 | is George for that very English of Kings, |
| 0:52.0 | Orwell for a river near his home, George Orwell. |
| 0:55.6 | George Orwell in war. |
| 0:56.6 | The Cold War begins almost immediately after 1945, the end of the war, formally in 1948. The question is, when did George Orwell |
| 1:07.4 | discover the Cold War and what drove him to a despair even more so than animal farm. Professor you write that he was |
| 1:15.9 | profoundly pessimistic when he approached 1984 which he published really near |
| 1:20.8 | the close of his life. He's suffering from tuberculosis and it will |
| 1:24.8 | overwhelm him. What what drove his pessimism between 45 and 49? Was there a |
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