Orwellspeak
Julian Symons, 9 November 1989
The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St George’ Orwell
by John Rodden.
Oxford, 478 pp., £22.50, October 1989,0 19 503954 8 Show More
by John Rodden.
Oxford, 478 pp., £22.50, October 1989,
“... by a backlist of Seeker foreign authors including Mishima, Moravia, Svevo, Gide, Colette, Kafka, Thomas Mann, Grass, Böll and half a dozen others, found that the whole lot added up to half Orwell’s earnings in the same period. New editions of four books have just been published, said to be ‘authoritative texts’ although in some the variants from the ... ”