{"id":780,"date":"2008-07-31T09:35:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/07\/1984-is-almost-here\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T09:37:32","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T16:37:32","slug":"1984-is-almost-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/31\/1984-is-almost-here\/","title":{"rendered":"1984 Is Almost Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Orwell Diaires<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

29 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries<\/small><\/p>\n

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Orwell\u00a0Diaries<\/a><\/h2>\n

23 July, 2008 by orwelldiaries<\/small><\/p>\n

\u2018When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page\u2019, wrote George Orwell, in his 1939 essay on Charles Dickens.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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From 9th<\/sup>\u00a0August 2008, you will be able to gather your own impression of Orwell\u2019s face from reading his most strongly individual piece of writing: his diaries. The Orwell Prize is delighted to announce that, to mark the 70th<\/sup>\u00a0anniversary of the diaries, each diary entry will be published on\u00a0this blog exactly seventy years after it was written, allowing you to follow Orwell\u2019s\u00a0recuperation in Morocco<\/a>, his return to the UK, and his opinions on the descent of Europe into war in real time. The diaries end in 1942, three years into the conflict.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What impression of Orwell will emerge? From his domestic diaries (which start on 9th<\/sup>\u00a0August), it may be a largely unknown Orwell, whose great curiosity is focused on plants, animals, woodwork, and \u2013 above all \u2013 how many eggs his chickens have laid. From his political diaries (from 7th<\/sup>\u00a0September), it may be the Orwell whose political observations and critical thinking have enthralled and inspired generations since his death in 1950. Whether writing about the Spanish Civil War or sloe gin, geraniums or Germany, Orwell\u2019s perceptive eye and rebellion against the \u2018gramophone mind\u2019 he so despised are obvious.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Orwell wrote of what he saw in Dickens: \u2018He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is\u00a0generously angry<\/em>\u2014 in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.\u2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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What will you see in the Orwell diaries?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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[ click to visit The Orwell Diaries blog<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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