TY - BOOK ID - 73032231 TI - Orwell PY - 2003 SN - 0773526226 9786612861550 1282861557 0773571531 9780773571532 9781282861558 9780773526228 661286155X PB - Montreal [Que.] McGill-Queen's University Press DB - UniCat KW - Orwell, George KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Political and social views KW - English literature. KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Orwell, George, KW - Orwell, George. KW - Orwell, Georg KW - Āravēla, Jorja KW - Blair, Eric Arthur KW - Oruel, G., KW - Oravēla, Jyorja KW - Orvel, Džordž KW - Orṿel, G'org' KW - Oruell, Dzhordzh KW - Oruel, Dzhordzh KW - Ārvel, Jārji KW - Ōweru, Jōji KW - Ūrvil, Jurj KW - Jārj Ārvil KW - אורוול, גורג, KW - אורוול, ג׳ורג׳ KW - אורול, ג׳ורג׳, KW - اورويل، جورج KW - 奥威尔乔治, KW - آرول، جارج، KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Political and social views. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73032231 AB - "In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people ." So begins one of Orwell's most famous essays. In Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One Ian Slater explains why Orwell was hated in Moulmein and takes us on a fascinating intellectual journey that traces the development of Orwell's political and social criticism. Using a uniquely thematic approach, Slater also examines Orwell's self-criticism and, finally, the hidden and corrosive dangers of state and self-imposed censorship in a security-obsessed world. Slater's tour de force, critically acclaimed by those on both the left and the right, moves from Orwell's schooldays in England and his time as a policeman in Burma, through his years as a struggling poet, dishwasher, tramp in Paris, and tutor, schoolmaster, and bookshop assistant in London, to his critical experiences during the Spanish Civil War. Slater takes us beyond the events of Orwell's life to the bitter satire of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm and the horrifying terror of Room 101 in 1984, Orwell's final novel, and shows that 1984 is as much a warning about the state of mind we call totalitarianism as it is a prophecy of an actual political state. As the war on terrorism continues and governments demand ever-increasing power over the individual in order to combat terrorism, Orwell: The Road to Airstrip One, reissued during Orwell's centenary, warns us that "he who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster." ER -