George Orwell, the unloved icon


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Orwell, neither honest, nor a socialist, nor a thinker, nor even a good writer? Why, then, do so many people claim him? This is the Orwell mystery.





By Laurence Moreau

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Symbol of resistance, the figure of Orwell exhibited by football supporters on a wall in Belgrade (Serbia), with this sentence, taken from an unpublished preface to Animal Farm (1945): “Freedom is the right to tell others what they don’t want to hear. »
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Visionary? In 2022, George Orwell has never been so relevant. Heirs to old totalitarian empires, China like the Russia of 2022 apply almost to the letter the lessons of the Oceania of 1984 : cult of the leader, suppression of individual freedoms, surveillance of populations, manipulation of language and aggressiveness towards the outside. Orwellian universes where Big Brother is called Xi Jinping or Vladimir Poutine, where the enemy is the West, where individual resistance is more and more perilous. But the democracies reputed to be the most liberal are not spared, either, by the insidious manipulation of individuals, facilitated by the development of new technologies and marketing techniques. We have seen in the United States, under Donald Trump, how much…


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