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22 mai 2013
- doi: 10.4000/books.pulg.883
- isbn: 9782251661902
- eisbn: 9782821828759
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Hena Maes-Jelinek, « George Orwell », Presses universitaires de Liège, ID : 10.4000/books.pulg.883
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There is no such thing as genuinely non-political literature,and least of all in an age like our own, whenfears, hatreds, and loyalties of a directly political kindare nearer to the surface of everyone’s consciousness. When Orwell came back from Burma, where he had been working as a police officer, the Western world was on the brink of the Great Slump of 1929. He was then going through a crisis provoked by the remorse he felt at having served British Imperialism. “For five years I had been pa...