[PEN-L:33434] Re: Hitchens on Orwell's Victory

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Subject: [PEN-L:33434] Re: Hitchens on Orwell's Victory
From: Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:49:43 +0000

The other
reviewer has it dead right: the book is a faultlessly narcissistic exercise,
entirely about Hitchens and his petty self-construction as a 'contrarian.'
(The
Wobbly in me gets the shakes on hearing a horrible Oxbridge word like that.)
One senses that Orwell could yet inflict a terrible revenge on his admirers,
Hitchens included. In a sense, Orwell may still trump Orwell.

Thiago Oppermann

Interesting comments, and also from the website, particularly Raymond Williams.

Perhaps all men are narcissistic but some are more narcissistic than others.

Chris Burford

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- [PEN-L:33373] Re: Hitchens on Orwell's Victory
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