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Orwell misses America: the author of 1984 and Animal Farm was one of the twentieth century's keenest social observers. But when it came to apprehending the USA, his vision was foggy.
George Orwell was an admirer of the American essayist Thomas Paine, and a student of his truth-telling style. But when it came to Paine's adopted country, Orwell exhibited a curious blind spot. He never visited the U.S., and showed little curiosity about it. He was suspicious of its commercial culture, resentful of its imperial ambitions, and fastidious about its sheer scale and vulgarity. America thus became the glaring exception to Orwell's prescience about the century in which he lived.
Like many critics of his day, Orwell took fairly easy pot-shots at the violence and crassness of American comics and pulp fiction. He criticized the nastiness of certain ...
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