Veeky Forums suddenly hates Orwell

You are clueless. Here's Orwell's story "Shooting an Elephant" from 1936. It explains the modern predicament of the "regressive left" better than anything I've ever read.

online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Orwell is far from "obsolete."

George Orwellian

"Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian"

>George Snorewell

the hivermind changes his mind

>Not Borewell
Do you even comprehend agency?

also The Prevention of Literature

Why would Armenians hate Orwell?

>It explains the modern predicament of the "regressive left"
The purpose of literature isn't to be satire to political movements you don't like
>better than anything I've ever read.
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10/10 actually made me mad

f*ckin sheeple . . .

Reading Homage to Catalonia, it started out interesting but the last 100 pages are boring shit about Spanish leftist factionalism.

I don't think so, I think some people here dislike his prose which is understandable although I personally love how 1984 was written. It's the only novel that I could read in a day that gave me the bleary eyed hangover feeling I get from reading philosophy.

I taught my girlfriend English (she could kind of speak it from media exposure but was about as literate as a typical American 8th grader, so not very) with Animal Farm and 1984, though she later said she didn't like 1984 much.

Seriously, not one reply about how he fabricated an entire journalistic book, plagiarized for his fiction, and sold out socialists to the British Crown despite claiming to be a socialist himself? I was disappointed to learn these things but theyre pretty hard to excuse

>hurrr i hate things that an author did so i cant appreciate his work anymore

he could have fucked the neckhole of a decapitated catalonian infant in a bomb hole while roman saluting for all I care, that shit's all in the past. The author and the work are separate entities from the perspective of history.

>muh death of the author

If anything the best reason to read Orwell is how clearly he communicates his thoughts (I.e. good writing)

The world is turning to shit again.

A somewhat decent author ruined by the insufferable fan-base of pretentious ''dissident'' kids.

Nothing new.

He's a godsend for me.

Nothing like citing/quoting him against superficially left-wing university students. He's like a counter-appeal-to-authority.

Who readily contradicts/disputes Orwell? Not a lot of people, in my experience. His name is a buzzword, it commands surprising respect.

There was a time when Veeky Forums didn't hare Orwell?

1984 blows

>taught my girlfriend english

i thought mail order brides were illegal

>i thought mail order brides were illegal
What gave you that impression. Louie Theroux did a pretty good documentary on them a few years back. Not the guy you quoted by the way

He had horrible taste in tea like all British people do and that is inexcusable.

Maybe with his novels, but journalistic memoir? Yeah its hard to justify that being entirely fabricated. He was a political author and respected for his travels and worldview, so the truth of those things certainly mattered.

>he fabricated an entire journalistic book

Which one?

>plagiarized for his fiction

Source?

>and sold out socialists to the British Crown

He gave a list of communists to an organization whose job was to make anti-communist propaganda.

I enjoyed it a lot though, even the leftist factionalism part

Nigga, you're supposed to read his essays and other works that are not animal farm and 1984. My catalonia exposes the communists working with the royalty to crush socialist workers uprisings in spain.

A hanging is a nice piece on how "duty" destroys the humanity of everyone following orders instead of their conscience.