George Orwell: Coming Up For Air, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Volume 7 of The Complete Works of George Orwell

Coming Up for Air looks back from the sprawl of thirties housing estates new arterial roads and the domination of the motor car to an idealised golden England largely rural and unmechanised when in the nostalgia of childhood it was 'summer. . . always summer'. It looks forward to the destruction wrought by air-raids (though written in 1938--1939 war is expected in 1941) leading to 'The world we're going down into the kind of hate-world slogan-world. . the rubber truncheons. . the posters with enormous faces' that will be Nineteen Eighty-Four. Yet despite its sense of loss and its grim foreboding Coming Up for Air is a very funny book with a rich sense of the incongruity of life and people and it is illuminated by Orwell's wry sardonic wit in which there is not a little self-parody.