George Orwell Opinions Salvador Dali’s Autobiography: “Dali is a Good Draughtsman and a Disgusting Human Being” (1944)

Photos or Orwell and Dali by way of Wiki­me­dia Com­mons Ought to we maintain artists to the identical stan­dards of human decen­cy that we count on of each­one else? Ought to tal­ent­ed peo­ple be exempt from ordi­nary ethical­i­ty? Ought to artists of ques­tion­in a position char­ac­ter have their work con­signed to the trash together with…

George Orwell Evaluations Mein Kampf: “He Envisages a Horrible Brainless Empire” (1940)

Christo­pher Hitchens as soon as wrote that there have been three main problems with the twen­ti­eth cen­tu­ry — impe­ri­al­ism, fas­cism, and Stal­in­ism — and George Orwell proved to be proper about all of them. Orwell dis­performs his comment­in a position fore­sight in a fas­ci­nat­ing e book assessment, pub­lished in March 1940, of Adolf Hitler’s noto­ri­ous…