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A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been hot sellers over the past two years and his name is conjured daily on newscasts and opinion pages as pundits try to make sense of the strange political moment in which we live. In keeping with that moment, The Sutherland House brings back to print the definitive biography, George Orwell: A Life, by political scholar Sir Bernard Crick. Originally published in 1982, Crick's Orwell was the first biography of its subject written with the cooperation of his widow. It was immediately lauded for its wealth of detail and shrewd analysis of Orwell's life, literature, and politics. "Not only was it a pioneering biography," said the editor of The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, "but it remains the best one there is." Professor Crick's highly readable and clear-eyed assessment of Orwell's thought and personal development is as necessary to an understanding to the author and his work as that author and his work are to an understanding of contemporary life.… (plus d'informations)
PRESENTATION DE L’EDITEUR, 2020- Edition française, Frédéric Joly)
Dans Orwell ou L’Horreur de la politique, sans doute le meilleur essai, avec Orwell, anarchiste tory de Jean Claude Michéa, consacré à la figure de George Orwell, Simon Leys affirme qu’il ne voit pas « qu’il existe un seul écrivain dont l’œuvre pourrait nous être d’un usage pratique plus urgent et plus immédiat ». [...]
PREFACE A L’EDITION DE 1982 / (Bernard Crick, Avril 1981)
La publication de la vie d’un célèbre et proche contemporain a inévitablement suscite´ une floraison de nouveaux éléments que je peux maintenant ajouter à cette édition revue et corrigée. [...]
PREFACE A L’EDITION DE 1992 / (Bernard Crick, Novembre 1991)
Un matériau inédit continue à être exhumé, suscité en particulier par le très médiatique non-évènement de 1984. [...]
Introduction L’ŒUVRE D’ORWELL
Quel genre de biographie ai-je tente´ d’écrire, et sur quel genre d’homme ? Les deux questions sont inséparables. [...]
Chapitre I « ET J’E´TAIS UN PETIT GARC¸ ON JOUFFLU »
Quelle sorte d’enfance pensait-il avoir eue ? Pendant sa brève période de gloire, vers la fin de sa vie, George Orwell se montra un peu moins acerbe et un peu plus tendre envers son passe´ qu’il ne l’avait été auparavant. [...]
A sublime essayist and author of the masterful political novels 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is at least as relevant in the age of Trump and Brexit as he was in his own short lifetime (1903-1950). Both of his classic novels have been hot sellers over the past two years and his name is conjured daily on newscasts and opinion pages as pundits try to make sense of the strange political moment in which we live. In keeping with that moment, The Sutherland House brings back to print the definitive biography, George Orwell: A Life, by political scholar Sir Bernard Crick. Originally published in 1982, Crick's Orwell was the first biography of its subject written with the cooperation of his widow. It was immediately lauded for its wealth of detail and shrewd analysis of Orwell's life, literature, and politics. "Not only was it a pioneering biography," said the editor of The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell, "but it remains the best one there is." Professor Crick's highly readable and clear-eyed assessment of Orwell's thought and personal development is as necessary to an understanding to the author and his work as that author and his work are to an understanding of contemporary life.
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