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Orwell and Wyndham Lewis
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Abstract
This chapter explores the unexpected relationship between Wyndham Lewis and Orwell, who recognized in 1939 that Lewis had moved politically to the left. Strangely, during the Second World War he writes as though Lewis had not done this. Orwell first wrote about Lewis in the early 1930s, whilst Lewis first discussed Orwell in 1941 and went on to write about him often, though they never met. In 1953 he published an admiring critique of Orwell in The Writer and the Absolute. Orwell suggested that Lewis should read the Italian radical Ignazio Silone to increase his political understanding, and this chapter discusses Silone’s The School for Dictators (trans. 1939), and the wartime Orwell-Silone relationship and friendship, which have not been previously examined. Also discussed is their mutual interest in Henry Miller.
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Abstract
This chapter explores the unexpected relationship between Wyndham Lewis and Orwell, who recognized in 1939 that Lewis had moved politically to the left.
Strangely, during the Second World War he writes as though Lewis had not done this.
Orwell first wrote about Lewis in the early 1930s, whilst Lewis first discussed Orwell in 1941 and went on to write about him often, though they never met.
In 1953 he published an admiring critique of Orwell in The Writer and the Absolute.
Orwell suggested that Lewis should read the Italian radical Ignazio Silone to increase his political understanding, and this chapter discusses Silone’s The School for Dictators (trans.
1939), and the wartime Orwell-Silone relationship and friendship, which have not been previously examined.
Also discussed is their mutual interest in Henry Miller.
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