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Rewriting George Orwell.(political critic)
The Spanish Civil War: the continuing controversy: II
Recent scholarly and literary discussion of the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939--mainly occasioned by the publication of Spain Betrayed--has inadvertently shed light on a previously neglected scandal in English letters. This is the wholesale misappropriation and even mutilation of George Orwell's works by a British pedant, Peter Davison.
The link between Orwell and Spain is an obvious one: the great English political critic was transformed by his experience in the Spanish war as a volunteer in the militia of an anti-Stalinist radical movement, the Partit Obrer d'Unificacio Marxista (POUM). This small ...
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