Combining the best of Hitchens's polemical punch and
intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this
book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will
continue to matter in a future, uncertain world. Christopher
Hitchens, one of the most incisive minds of our own age, meets
Orwell on the page in this provocative encounter of wit, contention
and moral truth.
In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens
assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great
political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative
and contrarian style, Hitchens is both admiring and aggressive,
sympathetic yet critical, taking true measure of his subject as
hero and problem. Answering both the detractors and the false
claimants, Hitchens tears down the façade of sainthood erected by
the hagiographers and rebuts the critics point by point. He
examines Orwell and his perspectives on fascism, empire, feminism,
and Englishness, as well as his outlook on America, a country and
culture towards which he exhibited much ambivalence. Whether
thinking about empires or dictators, race or class, nationalism or
popular culture, Orwell's moral outlook remains indispensable
in a world that has undergone vast changes in the fifty years since
his death. Combining the best of Hitchens's polemical punch and
intellectual elegance in a tightly woven and subtle argument, this
book addresses not only why Orwell matters today, but how he will
continue to matter in a future, uncertain world.Christopher
Hitchens, one of the most incisive minds of our own age, meets
Orwell on the page in this provocative encounter of wit, contention
and moral truth.
Christopher Hitchens, geboren 1949 im englischen Portsmouth, war als Buchautor und Auslandskorrespondent, Essayist, Literaturkritiker und Dozent tätig. Er schrieb regelmäßig u.a. für die New York Times, Slate, Vanity Fair und das Wall Street Journal. Christopher Hitchens verstarb 2011.
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