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(倬賵賱 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賴蹖趩 (鬲爻賱蹖賲
丕蹖賳 賲爻丕賱賴 夭賳 趩賯丿乇 賲賱丕賱鈥屫з嗂屫� 丕爻鬲! 亘賴 乇丕爻鬲蹖 噩丕蹖 鬲丕爻賮 丕爻鬲 讴賴 賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 丕夭 丌賳鈥屬囏� 讴丕賲賱丕 亘乇蹖丿 賵 賳賴 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 丨丿丕賯賱 賲丕賳賳丿 蹖讴 丨蹖賵丕賳 乇賮鬲丕乇 讴乇丿. 賱丨馗丕鬲蹖 乇丕 卮賴賵鬲 丨乇蹖氐丕賳賴鈥屫й� 丿丕卮鬲賳 賵 亘毓丿 賲丕賴鈥屬囏� 毓賮蹖賮 亘賵丿賳. 亘乇丕蹖 賲孬丕賱 蹖讴 禺乇賵爻 乇丕 丿乇 賳馗乇 亘诏蹖乇蹖賲貙 亘乇 乇賵蹖 賲乇睾蹖 賲蹖鈥屬矩必�. 賵 亘乇丕蹖卮 鬲賮丕賵鬲 賳賲蹖鈥屭┵嗀� 讴賴 讴爻蹖 丌賳噩丕 丨囟賵乇 丿丕乇丿 蹖丕 賳賴 賵 亘毓丿 賴賲賴 賲賵囟賵毓 丕夭 匕賴賳卮 禺丕乇噩 賲蹖鈥屫促堌�...
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First published January 1, 1936
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George Orwell
1,367听books48.3k听followersEric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
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February 10, 2017
Essentially this is every art student's dilemma, or at least it was back in my day, to sell out and deal with the Man or be true to our art and starve in an attic. Whether to find one's place within the system or try to forge a unique life outside of it. One thing we had in common was pot plants. An aspidistra in Orwell's case, another kind of pot plant for me.
As the story works itself out Gordon discovers two more things, things we had in common - we were really rather average poets and artists, and the answer to all the problems caused by following one's (mediocre) calling and being permanently broke, was the Man himself, aka Filthy Lucre. After all, there is a limit to how much cash you can borrow and still feel yourself an independent soul. Also, at least for a man, including Gordon much to his chagrin, it's much harder to get laid if you haven't a bean to your name.
So what did we all do? We sold out. Are we happy with our decision and our lives, did we even stay as artists? Probably most of us look back on our youth, well misspent as artists are wont to do, fondly, but are now solid citizens of society. We have morphed into the Man ourselves and don't call it 'selling out' but making a living.
It's not a bad read, amusing in parts, but Gordon is such a tiresome creature and it was all a bit, in a not-too-distant historical sense, been there, done that, grew up.
Not Orwell's best book, but still pretty good.
Rewritten Jan 29, 2017
As the story works itself out Gordon discovers two more things, things we had in common - we were really rather average poets and artists, and the answer to all the problems caused by following one's (mediocre) calling and being permanently broke, was the Man himself, aka Filthy Lucre. After all, there is a limit to how much cash you can borrow and still feel yourself an independent soul. Also, at least for a man, including Gordon much to his chagrin, it's much harder to get laid if you haven't a bean to your name.
So what did we all do? We sold out. Are we happy with our decision and our lives, did we even stay as artists? Probably most of us look back on our youth, well misspent as artists are wont to do, fondly, but are now solid citizens of society. We have morphed into the Man ourselves and don't call it 'selling out' but making a living.
It's not a bad read, amusing in parts, but Gordon is such a tiresome creature and it was all a bit, in a not-too-distant historical sense, been there, done that, grew up.
Not Orwell's best book, but still pretty good.
Rewritten Jan 29, 2017
October 14, 2021
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930's London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
The aspidistra is a hardy, long-living plant that is used as a house plant in England, and which can grow to an impressive, even unwieldy size.
It was especially popular in the Victorian era, in large part because it could tolerate not only weak sunlight but also the poor indoor air quality that resulted from the use of oil lamps and, later, coal gas lamps.
They had fallen out of favor by the 20th century, following the advent of electric lighting. Their use had been so widespread among the middle class that they had become a music hall joke appearing in songs such as "Biggest Aspidistra in the World," of which Gracie Fields made a recording.
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丿乇 丨丕賱蹖讴賴貙 丕夭 賮讴乇 爻丕毓丕鬲 亘蹖 爻蹖诏丕乇蹖 賮乇丿丕貙 讴爻賱 賵 亘蹖 丨賵氐賱賴 亘賵丿貙 丕夭 噩丕 亘賱賳丿 卮丿貙 賵 亘賴 爻賲鬲 丿乇 乇賮鬲貨 丕賳丿丕賲蹖 讴賵趩讴貙 亘丕 丕爻鬲禺賵丕賳 亘賳丿蹖 馗乇蹖賮 賵 丨乇讴丕鬲蹖 毓氐亘蹖 丿丕卮鬲貨 丌乇賳噩 丌爻鬲蹖賳 爻賲鬲 乇丕爻鬲 讴鬲卮貙 賳禺 賳賲丕 卮丿賴 亘賵丿貙 賵 丿诏賲賴 賵爻胤卮 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿貙 卮賱賵丕乇 賮賱丕賳賱 丨丕囟乇蹖卮貙 賱讴賴 丿丕乇 賵 丕夭 乇蹖禺鬲 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿貨 丨鬲丕 丕夭 亘丕賱丕 讴賴 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴乇丿蹖貙 賲蹖卮丿 賮賴賲蹖丿貙 讴賴 夭蹖乇賴 蹖 讴賮卮賴丕蹖卮貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 鬲毓賵蹖囟 丿丕乇賳丿貨
夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丕夭 噩丕蹖卮 亘賱賳丿 賲蹖卮丿貙 倬賵賱賴丕蹖 禺乇丿 丿乇賵賳 噩蹖亘 卮賱賵丕乇卮貙 噩乇蹖賳诏 噩乇蹖賳诏 氐丿丕 讴乇丿賳丿貨 丿賯蹖賯丕 賲賯丿丕乇 倬賵賱蹖 乇丕 讴賴 丿乇 噩蹖亘卮 亘賵丿貙 賲蹖丿丕賳爻鬲貨 倬賳噩 倬賳爻 賵 賳蹖賲 亘賵丿貙 賭賭 蹖讴 爻讴賴 爻賴 倬賳蹖 亘賴 毓賱丕賵賴 丿賵 賵 賳蹖賲 倬賳爻 賭賭貨 賲讴孬蹖 讴乇丿貙 爻讴賴 爻賴 倬賳蹖 亘蹖 丕乇夭卮 乇丕 亘蹖乇賵賳 丌賵乇丿貙 賵 亘賴 丌賳 賳诏丕賴 讴乇丿貨 賵丕賯毓丕 趩蹖夭 亘蹖賲氐乇賮蹖 亘賵丿貨 丕夭 胤乇賮 丿蹖诏乇貙 趩賯丿乇 丕丨賲賯丕賳賴 亘賵丿貙 讴賴 蹖讴 爻讴賴 爻賴 倬賳蹖 乇丕貙 丿蹖乇賵夭 亘禺卮蹖丿賴 亘賵丿貨 夭賲丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿丕卮鬲 爻蹖诏丕乇 賲蹖禺乇蹖丿貨 丿禺鬲乇讴 賮乇賵卮賳丿賴貙 亘丕 氐丿丕蹖蹖 賲孬賱 噩蹖乇噩蹖乇讴貙 丕夭 丕賵 倬乇爻蹖丿賴 亘賵丿: 芦丕诏乇 蹖讴 亘賱蹖鬲 爻賴 倬賳蹖 亘賴 卮賲丕 亘丿賴賲貙 丕卮讴丕賱蹖 丿丕乇丿責禄 賵 丕賵 诏賮鬲賴 亘賵丿: 芦賳賴 丕氐賱丕賸 丕卮讴丕賱蹖 賳丿丕乇丿禄 賵 丌賳 乇丕 丕夭 丕賵 诏乇賮鬲賴 亘賵丿貨 賵丕賯毓丕 丕丨賲賯 亘賵丿貨
賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 蹖丕丿 丌賵乇丿貙 讴賴 鬲賳賴丕 丿丕乇丕蹖蹖 丕賵 丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿賳蹖丕 丿賵 倬賳爻 賵 賳蹖賲 亘賵丿貙 賯賱亘卮 亘賴 丿乇丿 丌賲丿貨 亘賴 毓賱丕賵賴 蹖讴 亘賱蹖鬲 爻賴 倬賳蹖貙 讴賴 賳賲蹖卮丿 禺乇噩 讴乇丿貨 趩賵賳 趩胤賵乇 賲賲讴賳 亘賵丿貙 亘丕 蹖讴 亘賱蹖鬲 爻賴 倬賳蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 禺乇蹖丿責 丌賳 讴賴 爻讴賴 賳蹖爻鬲貙 賮賯胤 倬丕爻禺 蹖讴 賲毓賲丕 丕爻鬲貨 賵賯鬲蹖 丌賳 乇丕 丕夭 噩蹖亘鬲 亘蹖乇賵賳 賲蹖丌賵乇蹖貙 亘爻蹖丕乇 丕丨賲賯 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻蹖貨 鬲賵 賲蹖倬乇爻蹖 芦賯蹖賲鬲卮 趩賯丿乇 丕爻鬲責禄 賵 丿禺鬲乇 賮乇賵卮賳丿賴 倬丕爻禺 賲蹖丿賴丿 芦爻賴 倬賳爻禄貙 賵 卮賲丕 噩蹖亘 禺賵丿 乇丕 噩爻鬲噩賵 賲蹖讴賳蹖貙 賵 丌賳 爻賴 倬賳蹖 賲囟丨讴 讴賵趩讴 乇丕貙 讴賴 賲丕賳賳丿 蹖讴 诏賵賴乇 丿乇禺卮丕賳貙 亘賴 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 丕賳诏卮鬲 卮賲丕 趩爻亘蹖丿賴貙 丕夭 噩蹖亘 禺丕乇噩 賲蹖讴賳蹖貨 丿禺鬲乇 賮乇賵卮賳丿賴貙 亘蹖賳蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘丕賱丕 賲蹖讴卮丿貨 丕賵 亘賴 爻乇毓鬲 丿乇賲蹖蹖丕亘丿貙 讴賴 丕蹖賳 爻賴 倬賳爻 丌禺乇蹖賳 丿丕乇丕蹖蹖 卮賲丕貙 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕爻鬲貨 丕賵 亘賴 爻乇毓鬲貙 賳诏丕賴蹖 亘賴 爻讴賴 賲蹖丕賳丿丕夭丿貨 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 讴賴 丌蹖丕 賴賳賵夭 鬲讴賴 丕蹖 丕夭 丿爻乇 讴乇蹖爻賲爻貙 亘賴 丌賳 趩爻亘蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 蹖丕 賳賴貨 賵 卮賲丕貙 丿乇 丨丕賱蹖讴賴 爻乇 禺賵丿 乇丕貙 乇賵 亘賴 亘丕賱丕 诏乇賮鬲賴 丕蹖丿貙 丕夭 賲睾丕夭賴 亘蹖乇賵賳 賲蹖丌蹖蹖丿貙 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賴乇诏夭 賳賲蹖鬲賵丕賳蹖丿 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 亘乇诏乇丿蹖丿貨 賳賴貙 亘賳丕亘乇丕蹖賳 賳亘丕蹖丿 丌禺乇蹖賳 倬賳爻賴丕蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 禺乇噩 讴乇丿貨 鬲丕 噩賲毓賴 賮賯胤 丿賵 倬賳爻 賵 賳蹖賲 亘丕賯蹖 賲丕賳丿賴
丌賳 爻丕毓鬲貙 爻丕毓鬲 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 賳丕賴丕乇 亘賵丿貙 讴賴 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 賳賲蹖乇賮鬲貙 賴蹖趩 賲卮鬲乇蹖 丕蹖 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 賲乇丕噩毓賴 讴賳丿貨 丕賵 亘丕 賴賮鬲 賴夭丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 鬲賳賴丕 亘賵丿貨 丕鬲丕賯 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵 讴賵趩讴 讴賴 亘賵蹖 禺丕讴貙 賵 讴丕睾匕賴丕蹖 讴賴賳賴 乇丕貙 賲蹖丿丕丿貨 丿賮鬲乇 讴丕乇 丕賵貙 賲賲賱賵 亘賵丿 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖蹖貙 讴賴 丕讴孬乇丕 讴賴賳賴貙 賵 睾蹖乇賯丕亘賱 賮乇賵卮 亘賵丿賳丿貨 乇賵蹖 賯賮爻賴 賴丕蹖 亘丕賱丕蹖蹖貙 賳夭丿蹖讴 爻賯賮貙 丿丕蹖乇賴 丕賱賲毓丕乇賮賴丕蹖蹖 賯丿蹖賲蹖貙 賲丕賳賳丿 鬲丕亘賵鬲賴丕 丿乇 賯亘乇爻鬲丕賳 毓賲賵賲蹖貙 讴賳丕乇 賴賲 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貨 芦诏賵乇丿賵賳禄 倬乇丿賴 賴丕蹖 丌亘蹖 倬乇 丕夭 诏乇丿 賵 禺丕讴 乇丕貙 讴賴 丕鬲丕賯 丿蹖诏乇蹖 乇丕貙 丕夭 丌賳噩丕 賲噩夭丕 賲蹖讴乇丿賳丿貙 讴賳丕乇 夭丿貨 丕蹖賳 丕鬲丕賯 讴賴 乇賵卮賳鬲乇 亘賵丿貙 賲丨賱 丕賲丕賳鬲 丿丕丿賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 亘賴 賲卮鬲乇蹖丕賳 亘賵丿貨 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丕賲丕賳鬲 诏乇賮鬲賳 丌賳賴丕貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賵丿蹖毓賴 賳丿丕卮鬲貙 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丿賵 倬賳蹖 賳賲蹖丕乇夭蹖丿賳丿貨 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘賴 噩夭 乇賲丕賳賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 亘賵丿賳丿貙 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 丿蹖丿賴 賳賲蹖卮丿貙 賵 毓噩亘 乇賲丕賳賴丕蹖蹖! 丕賲丕 亘賴 賴乇丨丕賱 丌賳 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 賲賵囟賵毓蹖鬲蹖 丿丕卮鬲.)貨 倬丕蹖丕賳 賳賯賱
鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 04/10/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 21/07/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. It is set in 1930's London. The main theme is Gordon Comstock's romantic ambition to defy worship of the money-god and status, and the dismal life that results.
The aspidistra is a hardy, long-living plant that is used as a house plant in England, and which can grow to an impressive, even unwieldy size.
It was especially popular in the Victorian era, in large part because it could tolerate not only weak sunlight but also the poor indoor air quality that resulted from the use of oil lamps and, later, coal gas lamps.
They had fallen out of favor by the 20th century, following the advent of electric lighting. Their use had been so widespread among the middle class that they had become a music hall joke appearing in songs such as "Biggest Aspidistra in the World," of which Gracie Fields made a recording.
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丿乇 丨丕賱蹖讴賴貙 丕夭 賮讴乇 爻丕毓丕鬲 亘蹖 爻蹖诏丕乇蹖 賮乇丿丕貙 讴爻賱 賵 亘蹖 丨賵氐賱賴 亘賵丿貙 丕夭 噩丕 亘賱賳丿 卮丿貙 賵 亘賴 爻賲鬲 丿乇 乇賮鬲貨 丕賳丿丕賲蹖 讴賵趩讴貙 亘丕 丕爻鬲禺賵丕賳 亘賳丿蹖 馗乇蹖賮 賵 丨乇讴丕鬲蹖 毓氐亘蹖 丿丕卮鬲貨 丌乇賳噩 丌爻鬲蹖賳 爻賲鬲 乇丕爻鬲 讴鬲卮貙 賳禺 賳賲丕 卮丿賴 亘賵丿貙 賵 丿诏賲賴 賵爻胤卮 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿貙 卮賱賵丕乇 賮賱丕賳賱 丨丕囟乇蹖卮貙 賱讴賴 丿丕乇 賵 丕夭 乇蹖禺鬲 丕賮鬲丕丿賴 亘賵丿貨 丨鬲丕 丕夭 亘丕賱丕 讴賴 賳诏丕賴 賲蹖讴乇丿蹖貙 賲蹖卮丿 賮賴賲蹖丿貙 讴賴 夭蹖乇賴 蹖 讴賮卮賴丕蹖卮貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 鬲毓賵蹖囟 丿丕乇賳丿貨
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賵賯鬲蹖 亘賴 蹖丕丿 丌賵乇丿貙 讴賴 鬲賳賴丕 丿丕乇丕蹖蹖 丕賵 丿乇 丕蹖賳 丿賳蹖丕 丿賵 倬賳爻 賵 賳蹖賲 亘賵丿貙 賯賱亘卮 亘賴 丿乇丿 丌賲丿貨 亘賴 毓賱丕賵賴 蹖讴 亘賱蹖鬲 爻賴 倬賳蹖貙 讴賴 賳賲蹖卮丿 禺乇噩 讴乇丿貨 趩賵賳 趩胤賵乇 賲賲讴賳 亘賵丿貙 亘丕 蹖讴 亘賱蹖鬲 爻賴 倬賳蹖 趩蹖夭蹖 禺乇蹖丿責 丌賳 讴賴 爻讴賴 賳蹖爻鬲貙 賮賯胤 倬丕爻禺 蹖讴 賲毓賲丕 丕爻鬲貨 賵賯鬲蹖 丌賳 乇丕 丕夭 噩蹖亘鬲 亘蹖乇賵賳 賲蹖丌賵乇蹖貙 亘爻蹖丕乇 丕丨賲賯 亘賴 賳馗乇 賲蹖乇爻蹖貨 鬲賵 賲蹖倬乇爻蹖 芦賯蹖賲鬲卮 趩賯丿乇 丕爻鬲責禄 賵 丿禺鬲乇 賮乇賵卮賳丿賴 倬丕爻禺 賲蹖丿賴丿 芦爻賴 倬賳爻禄貙 賵 卮賲丕 噩蹖亘 禺賵丿 乇丕 噩爻鬲噩賵 賲蹖讴賳蹖貙 賵 丌賳 爻賴 倬賳蹖 賲囟丨讴 讴賵趩讴 乇丕貙 讴賴 賲丕賳賳丿 蹖讴 诏賵賴乇 丿乇禺卮丕賳貙 亘賴 丕賳鬲賴丕蹖 丕賳诏卮鬲 卮賲丕 趩爻亘蹖丿賴貙 丕夭 噩蹖亘 禺丕乇噩 賲蹖讴賳蹖貨 丿禺鬲乇 賮乇賵卮賳丿賴貙 亘蹖賳蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 亘丕賱丕 賲蹖讴卮丿貨 丕賵 亘賴 爻乇毓鬲 丿乇賲蹖蹖丕亘丿貙 讴賴 丕蹖賳 爻賴 倬賳爻 丌禺乇蹖賳 丿丕乇丕蹖蹖 卮賲丕貙 丿乇 丿賳蹖丕爻鬲貨 丕賵 亘賴 爻乇毓鬲貙 賳诏丕賴蹖 亘賴 爻讴賴 賲蹖丕賳丿丕夭丿貨 亘賴 丕蹖賳 賮讴乇 賲蹖讴賳丿貙 讴賴 丌蹖丕 賴賳賵夭 鬲讴賴 丕蹖 丕夭 丿爻乇 讴乇蹖爻賲爻貙 亘賴 丌賳 趩爻亘蹖丿賴 丕爻鬲貙 蹖丕 賳賴貨 賵 卮賲丕貙 丿乇 丨丕賱蹖讴賴 爻乇 禺賵丿 乇丕貙 乇賵 亘賴 亘丕賱丕 诏乇賮鬲賴 丕蹖丿貙 丕夭 賲睾丕夭賴 亘蹖乇賵賳 賲蹖丌蹖蹖丿貙 賵 丿蹖诏乇 賴乇诏夭 賳賲蹖鬲賵丕賳蹖丿 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 亘乇诏乇丿蹖丿貨 賳賴貙 亘賳丕亘乇丕蹖賳 賳亘丕蹖丿 丌禺乇蹖賳 倬賳爻賴丕蹖 禺賵丿 乇丕 禺乇噩 讴乇丿貨 鬲丕 噩賲毓賴 賮賯胤 丿賵 倬賳爻 賵 賳蹖賲 亘丕賯蹖 賲丕賳丿賴
丌賳 爻丕毓鬲貙 爻丕毓鬲 鬲賳賴丕蹖蹖 亘毓丿 丕夭 賳丕賴丕乇 亘賵丿貙 讴賴 丕賳鬲馗丕乇 賳賲蹖乇賮鬲貙 賴蹖趩 賲卮鬲乇蹖 丕蹖 亘賴 丌賳噩丕 賲乇丕噩毓賴 讴賳丿貨 丕賵 亘丕 賴賮鬲 賴夭丕乇 讴鬲丕亘 鬲賳賴丕 亘賵丿貨 丕鬲丕賯 鬲丕乇蹖讴 賵 讴賵趩讴 讴賴 亘賵蹖 禺丕讴貙 賵 讴丕睾匕賴丕蹖 讴賴賳賴 乇丕貙 賲蹖丿丕丿貨 丿賮鬲乇 讴丕乇 丕賵貙 賲賲賱賵 亘賵丿 丕夭 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖蹖貙 讴賴 丕讴孬乇丕 讴賴賳賴貙 賵 睾蹖乇賯丕亘賱 賮乇賵卮 亘賵丿賳丿貨 乇賵蹖 賯賮爻賴 賴丕蹖 亘丕賱丕蹖蹖貙 賳夭丿蹖讴 爻賯賮貙 丿丕蹖乇賴 丕賱賲毓丕乇賮賴丕蹖蹖 賯丿蹖賲蹖貙 賲丕賳賳丿 鬲丕亘賵鬲賴丕 丿乇 賯亘乇爻鬲丕賳 毓賲賵賲蹖貙 讴賳丕乇 賴賲 诏匕丕卮鬲賴 卮丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貨 芦诏賵乇丿賵賳禄 倬乇丿賴 賴丕蹖 丌亘蹖 倬乇 丕夭 诏乇丿 賵 禺丕讴 乇丕貙 讴賴 丕鬲丕賯 丿蹖诏乇蹖 乇丕貙 丕夭 丌賳噩丕 賲噩夭丕 賲蹖讴乇丿賳丿貙 讴賳丕乇 夭丿貨 丕蹖賳 丕鬲丕賯 讴賴 乇賵卮賳鬲乇 亘賵丿貙 賲丨賱 丕賲丕賳鬲 丿丕丿賳 讴鬲丕亘貙 亘賴 賲卮鬲乇蹖丕賳 亘賵丿貨 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丕賲丕賳鬲 诏乇賮鬲賳 丌賳賴丕貙 賳蹖丕夭 亘賴 賵丿蹖毓賴 賳丿丕卮鬲貙 賵 亘蹖卮鬲乇 丕夭 丿賵 倬賳蹖 賳賲蹖丕乇夭蹖丿賳丿貨 丕賱亘鬲賴 亘賴 噩夭 乇賲丕賳賴丕蹖蹖 讴賴 丿乇 丌賳噩丕 亘賵丿賳丿貙 讴鬲丕亘賴丕蹖 丿蹖诏乇蹖 丿蹖丿賴 賳賲蹖卮丿貙 賵 毓噩亘 乇賲丕賳賴丕蹖蹖! 丕賲丕 亘賴 賴乇丨丕賱 丌賳 賴賲 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵丿 賲賵囟賵毓蹖鬲蹖 丿丕卮鬲.)貨 倬丕蹖丕賳 賳賯賱
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April 19, 2025
This is an earlier work of Orwell, and so shares with others in its category a rueful, biting cynicism and incipient depression. Not at all among the more buoyant of his books - as are by comparison, Animal Farm and 1984.
By buoyant I mean that Orwell was, later on, fast becoming a household name in the leftward-drifting West, so that buoyed up by fame and fortune, he wrote with more confident acuity!
And now he had money to burn, the want thereof having inspired the early and more dismal work Aspidistra.
Gordon Comstock despises the capitalism of the book trade, and he despises capitalism, period. If authors can get rich with their books, why can't Comstock? He squirms in envy - burns in bale and smothers in smoke!
Guess what? Orwell shoots himself in the foot here. He would, of course, learn more subtlety later. Then his books would sell.
Added to that, his Leftist stance would make him a sorta evangelist. Evangelism fills a need. The Daemon Knows... So, in our time, booksellers are now the NEW evangelists.
The book first stared up at me in 1976 from my old school buddy Allan's coffee table down in Kingston, Ontario. Almost like the bottle label to the too-large Alice, it said Read Me! Read Me! And so I did, though much later. But with such a title, how could I forget about it? Again, the daemon - the READING daemon.
Do any of you readers know that familiar devil?馃
Well, anyway, Orwell, as the novel thinly veils his own story, worked odd jobs to make ends meet (like so many of the jobless in the Thirties). One job was selling books (read my Kindle highlights). So he learned The Big Sell of the Literary Trade - long before it became an attractive crowd-pleaser on GoodReads.
In his best-selling Isabel Dalhousie series of cozy mysteries, the writer McCall Smith has Isabel treat literary outsiders, such as Orwell and Auden, with the same hushed reverence that - in my childhood - was associated with places of worship.
Pariahs are suddenly IN, their books and reviews as valuable to our more sophisticated generation - as paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso, painters of an outr茅 mindset, were to high-class early 20th century Parisian snobs.
Speaks VOLUMES of us, if you ask me!
Art and literature are the new barrier-busters...
And so books, too, have gone the way of all flesh...
And have fallen into the dark demesne of the Almighty Corporate Buck. Roll over in your grave, George Orwell!
By buoyant I mean that Orwell was, later on, fast becoming a household name in the leftward-drifting West, so that buoyed up by fame and fortune, he wrote with more confident acuity!
And now he had money to burn, the want thereof having inspired the early and more dismal work Aspidistra.
Gordon Comstock despises the capitalism of the book trade, and he despises capitalism, period. If authors can get rich with their books, why can't Comstock? He squirms in envy - burns in bale and smothers in smoke!
Guess what? Orwell shoots himself in the foot here. He would, of course, learn more subtlety later. Then his books would sell.
Added to that, his Leftist stance would make him a sorta evangelist. Evangelism fills a need. The Daemon Knows... So, in our time, booksellers are now the NEW evangelists.
The book first stared up at me in 1976 from my old school buddy Allan's coffee table down in Kingston, Ontario. Almost like the bottle label to the too-large Alice, it said Read Me! Read Me! And so I did, though much later. But with such a title, how could I forget about it? Again, the daemon - the READING daemon.
Do any of you readers know that familiar devil?馃
Well, anyway, Orwell, as the novel thinly veils his own story, worked odd jobs to make ends meet (like so many of the jobless in the Thirties). One job was selling books (read my Kindle highlights). So he learned The Big Sell of the Literary Trade - long before it became an attractive crowd-pleaser on GoodReads.
In his best-selling Isabel Dalhousie series of cozy mysteries, the writer McCall Smith has Isabel treat literary outsiders, such as Orwell and Auden, with the same hushed reverence that - in my childhood - was associated with places of worship.
Pariahs are suddenly IN, their books and reviews as valuable to our more sophisticated generation - as paintings by Van Gogh and Picasso, painters of an outr茅 mindset, were to high-class early 20th century Parisian snobs.
Speaks VOLUMES of us, if you ask me!
Art and literature are the new barrier-busters...
And so books, too, have gone the way of all flesh...
And have fallen into the dark demesne of the Almighty Corporate Buck. Roll over in your grave, George Orwell!
September 8, 2019
It's a tiresome book with a bitter, complaining main character with artistic ambitions. The snapshot capture of the time and place made it worth reading.
"The most difficult times were the 1800s, when many Victorian homes began to have indoor lighting powered by gas. Gas lights produced toxic fumes that induced headache and nausea, blackened ceilings, discolored curtains, corroded metals and left a layer of soot on every flat surface. Flowers and most houseplants wilted. Only two particularly hardy plants managed to survive the dismal environment of a Victorian home鈥攖he Kentia palm and the aspidistra. These two plants, especially the aspidistra, became a mainstay of every Victorian parlour, drawing room, lobby and upscale ballroom."
"The most difficult times were the 1800s, when many Victorian homes began to have indoor lighting powered by gas. Gas lights produced toxic fumes that induced headache and nausea, blackened ceilings, discolored curtains, corroded metals and left a layer of soot on every flat surface. Flowers and most houseplants wilted. Only two particularly hardy plants managed to survive the dismal environment of a Victorian home鈥攖he Kentia palm and the aspidistra. These two plants, especially the aspidistra, became a mainstay of every Victorian parlour, drawing room, lobby and upscale ballroom."
April 10, 2023
The novel is like "1984", a thesis novel. The author sets out to portray to us in great detail the monotony and smallness of Gordon's life and shows us page after page to what extent money governs every moment of the life of his "hero," despite his desperate attempt to extricate himself from the system. Suppose a form of boredom sometimes accompanies reading. In that case, insidious anguish seizes the reader when he realizes how poverty eats away at Gordon from within, at the risk of robbing him of his soul.
The reader quickly grasps the irony of the situation. By choosing to fight against money, Gordon paradoxically gets into a slump where lack of funds dictates his choices and defines him as a social, penniless friend with Ravelston and a chaste lover with Rosemary. At first glance, the novel's title, to say the least opaque, takes on its whole meaning: the aspidistra is a perennial plant, an integral part of every London household. It symbolizes a form of normality, of belonging to society. Gordon's hatred of the aspidistra, which in his eyes represents the system he refuses to be a part of, perfectly illustrates the author's chilling irony.
The reader quickly grasps the irony of the situation. By choosing to fight against money, Gordon paradoxically gets into a slump where lack of funds dictates his choices and defines him as a social, penniless friend with Ravelston and a chaste lover with Rosemary. At first glance, the novel's title, to say the least opaque, takes on its whole meaning: the aspidistra is a perennial plant, an integral part of every London household. It symbolizes a form of normality, of belonging to society. Gordon's hatred of the aspidistra, which in his eyes represents the system he refuses to be a part of, perfectly illustrates the author's chilling irony.
June 25, 2017
What is more important in life: to hold on your principles and by this lead a dreadful life, or to leave your principles, and by that get a richer life? Actually this is the basic question in this book. To know what Gordon choses, You should read the book. It's worth it.
July 26, 2008
Dear George Orwell,
It's not you, it's me. It had to happen, really, this bit of faultering in the crush I've had on you. Sure, I've known you for years, but as you know, I've been completely smitten with you since last summer when I read your first published novel, Down and Out in Paris and London. I grew more smitten while reading An Age Like This, 1920- 1940, your early correspondance, reviews, and essays, and I remained so while reading your 2nd published novel, Burmese Days. But now the new car smell has faded a bit from my crush (sorry George, I know how Socialists detest it when emotions are fetishized and commodified). It's just that this latest book of yours that I've read, your 4th published novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936, GB; 1956, US) has turned me from you a bit. I know that I'm probably making a mistake; others tell me how great you are--critic Lionel Trilling is quoted on the back leaf of my Harcourt edition as saying that Keep ... is "A remarkable novel ... a summa of all the criticisms of a commercial civilization that have ever been made," and the San Francisco Chronicle calls it "Both humorous and poignant." And to an extent, I agree--especially with Trilling's "summa" statement.
The story is simple enough: Gordon Comstock, a decent poet of little success, has declared war on money. He is determined that he will live in a constant state of poverty, battling throughout the book to avoid succumbing to the ownership of what is, to him, the symbol of the drudge of middle class life: the aspidistra, a spindly-leafed member of the lily family, prized for its ability to withstand poor soil, little light, and minimal care. And I have to say that establishing this plant as Comstock's nemesis is a fabulously Orwellian statement about what it means to achieve enough "success" to land oneself in the middling rank. If it were only that to consider, George, I'd still be all about you.
So what's my problem? you ask. Why am I giving you the "it's not you, it's me" speech? My problem is that your main character annoys me tremendously. Yes, Gordon Comstock shares some similarities to John Flory, the protagonist in Burmese Days. Both men step outside their immediate social group to take an objective look at that group. Both make attempts, albeit misguided and rather unsuccessful attemps, to avoid being manipulated by those close to them. But Flory is a much more sympathetic and likable character whose main flaw, one could argue, is blind romantic optimism. Perhaps in some ways, George, you see Comstock as Flory taken to the next step, the place one goes after blind romantic optimism has failed. To me, however, Comstock comes off as a whiney, self-destructive man having a major pout. He is determined that everyone around him be as repulsed by him as he is by the system that prizes the bastion of mediocrity that is the aspidistra.
In all honesty, George, I think the problem, as is so often the case when a romance takes a downward turn, is that Comstock reminds me of a past relationship, he reminds me of a friend in my real world, the one outside of the pages, who wanted to issue a similar indictment against society. I know it's bad form to compare our situation with one past, but it's true, I've seen it before, the way Comstock relishes his smugness as he sits in his pious filth only to realize that he is the only one who understands the joke. The problem is that neither my friend in the past relationship nor Comstock seem to understand that society as a whole doesn't take much notice when one man refuses to conform to its dictates. At most that refusal may get him tossed in jail for some fairly innocuous reason, but there's no real improvement in the social soil. As with my friend, when Comstock realizes this, he becomes disenchanted with his perfect society of one and must decide which is worse, to slog though life in embittered solitude or to join the rest of the group by opening the curtains to the front window so all can see that the aspidistra is thriving.
George, I guess what I'm saying is that I just need a little time and space. I know we've spent some amazing time together, and I'm sure that in time, I'll come to my senses and be back in touch. Until then, I wish you well and hope someone new finds you for the amazing guy you are.
All my best,
Patricia
It's not you, it's me. It had to happen, really, this bit of faultering in the crush I've had on you. Sure, I've known you for years, but as you know, I've been completely smitten with you since last summer when I read your first published novel, Down and Out in Paris and London. I grew more smitten while reading An Age Like This, 1920- 1940, your early correspondance, reviews, and essays, and I remained so while reading your 2nd published novel, Burmese Days. But now the new car smell has faded a bit from my crush (sorry George, I know how Socialists detest it when emotions are fetishized and commodified). It's just that this latest book of yours that I've read, your 4th published novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936, GB; 1956, US) has turned me from you a bit. I know that I'm probably making a mistake; others tell me how great you are--critic Lionel Trilling is quoted on the back leaf of my Harcourt edition as saying that Keep ... is "A remarkable novel ... a summa of all the criticisms of a commercial civilization that have ever been made," and the San Francisco Chronicle calls it "Both humorous and poignant." And to an extent, I agree--especially with Trilling's "summa" statement.
The story is simple enough: Gordon Comstock, a decent poet of little success, has declared war on money. He is determined that he will live in a constant state of poverty, battling throughout the book to avoid succumbing to the ownership of what is, to him, the symbol of the drudge of middle class life: the aspidistra, a spindly-leafed member of the lily family, prized for its ability to withstand poor soil, little light, and minimal care. And I have to say that establishing this plant as Comstock's nemesis is a fabulously Orwellian statement about what it means to achieve enough "success" to land oneself in the middling rank. If it were only that to consider, George, I'd still be all about you.
So what's my problem? you ask. Why am I giving you the "it's not you, it's me" speech? My problem is that your main character annoys me tremendously. Yes, Gordon Comstock shares some similarities to John Flory, the protagonist in Burmese Days. Both men step outside their immediate social group to take an objective look at that group. Both make attempts, albeit misguided and rather unsuccessful attemps, to avoid being manipulated by those close to them. But Flory is a much more sympathetic and likable character whose main flaw, one could argue, is blind romantic optimism. Perhaps in some ways, George, you see Comstock as Flory taken to the next step, the place one goes after blind romantic optimism has failed. To me, however, Comstock comes off as a whiney, self-destructive man having a major pout. He is determined that everyone around him be as repulsed by him as he is by the system that prizes the bastion of mediocrity that is the aspidistra.
In all honesty, George, I think the problem, as is so often the case when a romance takes a downward turn, is that Comstock reminds me of a past relationship, he reminds me of a friend in my real world, the one outside of the pages, who wanted to issue a similar indictment against society. I know it's bad form to compare our situation with one past, but it's true, I've seen it before, the way Comstock relishes his smugness as he sits in his pious filth only to realize that he is the only one who understands the joke. The problem is that neither my friend in the past relationship nor Comstock seem to understand that society as a whole doesn't take much notice when one man refuses to conform to its dictates. At most that refusal may get him tossed in jail for some fairly innocuous reason, but there's no real improvement in the social soil. As with my friend, when Comstock realizes this, he becomes disenchanted with his perfect society of one and must decide which is worse, to slog though life in embittered solitude or to join the rest of the group by opening the curtains to the front window so all can see that the aspidistra is thriving.
George, I guess what I'm saying is that I just need a little time and space. I know we've spent some amazing time together, and I'm sure that in time, I'll come to my senses and be back in touch. Until then, I wish you well and hope someone new finds you for the amazing guy you are.
All my best,
Patricia
March 6, 2021
Apparently Orwell himself didn't think much of this, and kept Keep the Aspidistra Flying from being reprinted in his lifetime. The mixed reviews come as no surprise then. While it isn't a bad novel, the plot does feel a bit puny, and the message he is trying to send out is delivered without any real drive and potency. Even the metaphors don't really stand up. It's something - unlike 1984 or my fave Down and Out in Paris and London - that's not going to hang around in my head for too long. Also, I don't know how on earth the novel can be seen as satire, because for me it isn't. Just too depressing and straight-faced. The contradicting second-rate poet Gordon Comstock - a character I didn't particularly like - makes the decision to quit his advertising agency to take up a dead-end job in a small bookshop. Basically he is sick to death of the blighting consumerism on society. Just about getting by with his uncomplaining girlfriend Rosemary, leads to an unexpected pregnancy and he is suddenly faced with the choice of whether to conform or to compound in regards to his hardship way of life. It's safe to say that Comstock incorporates some of the difficulties Orwell experienced himself. The person trying to live morally in a capitalist society for example. When it comes to the actual subject of finances, then I'd say Gordon is more on the side of wanting to simply shun adult life and responsibilities than he is bothered by the money-god and capitalism. He sees his own self-inflicted poverty easier to take rather than have it thrust upon him by outer forces. Orwell鈥檚 own life of poverty does mean Gordon鈥檚 is written with authenticity, but, I'd simply take Orwell all day long writing about himself rather than a fictitious version. Like I've said before - apart from 1984 - I much prefer his non-fiction/essays. 2.7 stars.
April 15, 2013
The reader鈥檚 response to Gordon Comstock鈥檚 behaviour will depend upon whether the reader has ever tried to live a 鈥渟elf-sufficient鈥� life free from bourgeois respectability, or seriously pursued an artistic vocation with stubborn single-mindedness. Orwell鈥檚 novel is pretty one-track plot-wise鈥攚hat happens when a person renounces money and its interminable grip?鈥攂ut Comstock鈥檚 obsessive pursuit is a societal conundrum of universal proportions and makes for a frustrating and bone-deep trip to the depths. In my own case, my mother abandoned college ambitions to support her parents, and my two siblings have ditched artistic ambitions in favour of reasonably stable and well-paid occupations鈥攁s the third child, with this history of 鈥渟elling out to the man,鈥� I felt a strong need to have convictions as an artist 尘补苍辩耻茅, privations being part of the plan on the road to obscurity. Comstock鈥檚 artistic drive is not strong enough to triumph over his money worries, suggesting his desire to write poetry is nothing but an excuse for rebelling against a predetermined bourgeois society (more horrible in the 1930s than it will ever be again). As with all Orwell鈥檚 fiction: it burrows into your conscience and lays eggs there.
July 10, 2014
I buddy read this book with my bestie, Ariel Bissett. We spent more time on Voxer than actually reading this novel most nights but in our defense we spent most of that time gushing about Orwell.
I think this is my favorite Orwell. I knew that from the very first chapter and oh what a chapter that is. I think it may be one of the best opening chapters to a novel that I've ever read, in fact, it's one of the best chapters that I've ever read.
This novel tells us the story of Gordon Comstock, a man that completely rejects capitalism so much that he gives up his job at a large advertising agency to work in a quaint little bookshop. He hates money. He just wants to be a poet. However, his selfless, money-hating, and sometimes irritating attitude does not help his life in any way. Gordon is still an incredibly interesting protagonist though and I felt that this glimpse into life was just perfect, perfect!
I really just want to run around the streets with copies of this book and throw it at people's faces shouting "OH MY GOD READ THIS". I would obviously be arrested for these actions so I'm going to do it here, OH MY GOD READ THIS. If you've only read the famous Orwells, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, then I highly suggest you read his lesser-known but (in my opinion) better works. This novel is a great entry point into the books that really made Orwell great. Once you're hooked though, you'll never look back!
I think this is my favorite Orwell. I knew that from the very first chapter and oh what a chapter that is. I think it may be one of the best opening chapters to a novel that I've ever read, in fact, it's one of the best chapters that I've ever read.
This novel tells us the story of Gordon Comstock, a man that completely rejects capitalism so much that he gives up his job at a large advertising agency to work in a quaint little bookshop. He hates money. He just wants to be a poet. However, his selfless, money-hating, and sometimes irritating attitude does not help his life in any way. Gordon is still an incredibly interesting protagonist though and I felt that this glimpse into life was just perfect, perfect!
I really just want to run around the streets with copies of this book and throw it at people's faces shouting "OH MY GOD READ THIS". I would obviously be arrested for these actions so I'm going to do it here, OH MY GOD READ THIS. If you've only read the famous Orwells, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, then I highly suggest you read his lesser-known but (in my opinion) better works. This novel is a great entry point into the books that really made Orwell great. Once you're hooked though, you'll never look back!
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March 10, 2019A novel of London life and the search for integrity in the 1930s. It conjures up the oppressive atmosphere resulting from self inflicted poverty and features the shabbier side of life to the extent that the one brief excursion that the hero and his girlfriend make out of London feels like the explosive escape from a crushing environment.
The story follows a young man who gives up a comfortable job in advertising to work on a not very good poem about how rubbish and tawdry modern life and its amusements are. It is slightly unsatisfying as a novel I think because it can't resolve the problem that it sets up in a satisfactory way, but maybe you might shrug and find that is simply realistic.
The story follows a young man who gives up a comfortable job in advertising to work on a not very good poem about how rubbish and tawdry modern life and its amusements are. It is slightly unsatisfying as a novel I think because it can't resolve the problem that it sets up in a satisfactory way, but maybe you might shrug and find that is simply realistic.
February 1, 2021
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December 23, 2018
3.5 stars rounded up
One of Orwell鈥檚 earlier novels and one he didn鈥檛 really like, as he declined to have it reprinted in his lifetime. There are elements of Orwell鈥檚 life in this, rather than his personality. This is a biting satire written and set in the mid-1930s. The satire covers what might be called the 鈥渞at-race鈥� and the god of money. It is a bitter demolition of lower middle class values as Orwell perceived them. The prose is great, but it is difficult to read, mainly because of the main protagonist Gordon Comstock, who is really not at all likeable, and very irritating. Orwell does seem in his early work to have the ability to write unsympathetic male characters.
Comstock leaves a good job as an advertising copywriter because of his principles and his desire to make war on the good of money, failing to realise if you are in poverty money becomes much more important. He takes a low paid job in a bookshop and lives in a bedsitting room and struggles to make ends meet. He does have friends. Ravelston is an upper class socialist who publishes a magazine and sometimes publishes Comstock鈥檚 rather awful poetry. Ravelston always offers extra support to Comstock in terms of loans, gifts or food, but Comstock鈥檚 pride and principles mean he resentfully refuses. There is also Rosemary, Comstock鈥檚 girlfriend, whom he treats very badly, feeling resentment towards her as well and not willing to contemplate her paying her own way when they go out. Comstock, despite professing socialism is unable to leave his middle class values behind when it comes to his relationships with women, although he continues to pressurize Rosemary to sleep with him. When he does sell a poem and has a little money he insists on taking his friends out, gets very drunk, assaults Rosemary and gets arrested. He loses his job and ends up in an even lower paid job. The ending is interesting as for me it has a double edge. Is it redemptive? Or is it an indication that there is no escape from the god of money. Orwell writes Comstock鈥檚 angst well:
鈥淏efore, he had fought against the money code, and yet he had clung to his wretched remnant of decency. But now it was precisely from decency that he wanted to escape. He wanted to go down, deep down, into some world where decency no longer mattered; to cut the strings of his self-respect, to submerge himself鈥攖o sink, as Rosemary had said. It was all bound up in his mind with the thought of being under ground. He liked to think of the lost people, the under-ground people: tramps, beggars, criminals, prostitutes鈥� He liked to think that beneath the world of money there is that great sluttish underworld where failure and success have no meaning; a sort of kingdom of ghosts where all are equal. That was where he wished to be, down in the ghost kingdom, below ambition. It comforted him somehow to think of the smoke-dim slums of South London sprawling on and on, a huge graceless wilderness where you could lose yourself forever鈥�
Orwell in real life wrote mostly reportage and this is the best way to read him, the early novels were experiments. Comstock does nothing with his principles and seems apolitical. As Orwell says:
鈥淭here will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.鈥�
Comstock is an angry young man before his time, but vents his anger on those that care for him rather than the capitalist system. Orwell also makes the point that poverty is in no way romantic, a point he makes much more eloquently in his reportage. An aspidistra by the way is a hardy, long-lived house plant, much beloved in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in middle class British homes. Orwell is using it to symbolize a certain middle class set of attitudes. He does the satire very effectively, so effectively and makes Comstock so unlikeable that the novel is difficult to read.
One of Orwell鈥檚 earlier novels and one he didn鈥檛 really like, as he declined to have it reprinted in his lifetime. There are elements of Orwell鈥檚 life in this, rather than his personality. This is a biting satire written and set in the mid-1930s. The satire covers what might be called the 鈥渞at-race鈥� and the god of money. It is a bitter demolition of lower middle class values as Orwell perceived them. The prose is great, but it is difficult to read, mainly because of the main protagonist Gordon Comstock, who is really not at all likeable, and very irritating. Orwell does seem in his early work to have the ability to write unsympathetic male characters.
Comstock leaves a good job as an advertising copywriter because of his principles and his desire to make war on the good of money, failing to realise if you are in poverty money becomes much more important. He takes a low paid job in a bookshop and lives in a bedsitting room and struggles to make ends meet. He does have friends. Ravelston is an upper class socialist who publishes a magazine and sometimes publishes Comstock鈥檚 rather awful poetry. Ravelston always offers extra support to Comstock in terms of loans, gifts or food, but Comstock鈥檚 pride and principles mean he resentfully refuses. There is also Rosemary, Comstock鈥檚 girlfriend, whom he treats very badly, feeling resentment towards her as well and not willing to contemplate her paying her own way when they go out. Comstock, despite professing socialism is unable to leave his middle class values behind when it comes to his relationships with women, although he continues to pressurize Rosemary to sleep with him. When he does sell a poem and has a little money he insists on taking his friends out, gets very drunk, assaults Rosemary and gets arrested. He loses his job and ends up in an even lower paid job. The ending is interesting as for me it has a double edge. Is it redemptive? Or is it an indication that there is no escape from the god of money. Orwell writes Comstock鈥檚 angst well:
鈥淏efore, he had fought against the money code, and yet he had clung to his wretched remnant of decency. But now it was precisely from decency that he wanted to escape. He wanted to go down, deep down, into some world where decency no longer mattered; to cut the strings of his self-respect, to submerge himself鈥攖o sink, as Rosemary had said. It was all bound up in his mind with the thought of being under ground. He liked to think of the lost people, the under-ground people: tramps, beggars, criminals, prostitutes鈥� He liked to think that beneath the world of money there is that great sluttish underworld where failure and success have no meaning; a sort of kingdom of ghosts where all are equal. That was where he wished to be, down in the ghost kingdom, below ambition. It comforted him somehow to think of the smoke-dim slums of South London sprawling on and on, a huge graceless wilderness where you could lose yourself forever鈥�
Orwell in real life wrote mostly reportage and this is the best way to read him, the early novels were experiments. Comstock does nothing with his principles and seems apolitical. As Orwell says:
鈥淭here will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.鈥�
Comstock is an angry young man before his time, but vents his anger on those that care for him rather than the capitalist system. Orwell also makes the point that poverty is in no way romantic, a point he makes much more eloquently in his reportage. An aspidistra by the way is a hardy, long-lived house plant, much beloved in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in middle class British homes. Orwell is using it to symbolize a certain middle class set of attitudes. He does the satire very effectively, so effectively and makes Comstock so unlikeable that the novel is difficult to read.
June 11, 2021
鈥炐樞夹把埿� 褔褍胁褋褌胁芯褌芯, 褔械 邪泻芯 懈褋褌懈薪褋泻懈 锌褉械蟹懈褉邪褕 锌邪褉懈褌械, 屑芯卸械褕 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 泻邪褌芯 锌褌懈褔泻邪 斜芯卸懈褟. 袟邪斜褉邪胁褟褕械, 褔械 锌褌懈褔泻懈褌械 薪械 锌谢邪褖邪褌 薪邪械屑. 袚谢邪写褍胁邪褖 胁 褌邪胁邪薪褋泻邪 褋褌邪褟 锌芯械褌 鈥� 谐谢邪写褍胁邪褖, 薪芯 薪褟泻邪泻 锌芯薪芯褋懈屑芯 鈥� 褌邪泻邪 褋械 胁懈卸写邪褕械 褌芯泄.鈥�
袚芯褉写褗薪 懈写胁邪 芯褌 褉芯写 薪邪 写褉械斜薪芯斜褍褉卸芯邪蟹薪懈 薪械褍写邪褔薪懈褑懈 懈 褋邪屑懈褟褌 褌芯泄 胁褗褉胁懈 褋 斜褗褉蟹懈 泻褉邪褔泻懈 泻褗屑 褋褗褖邪褌邪 褋褗写斜邪. 袗 懈薪邪褔械 械 褍屑械薪 懈 褋锌芯褋芯斜械薪 屑谢邪写 屑褗卸, 褍屑械谢 褋 写褍屑懈褌械, 懈 懈屑邪 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褕邪薪褋芯胁械 写邪 褋械 懈蟹写懈谐薪械 泻邪褌芯 褋褗褋褌邪胁懈褌械谢 薪邪 褉械泻谢邪屑薪懈 褌械泻褋褌芯胁械. 小邪屑芯 褔械 袚芯褉写褗薪 锌褉械蟹懈褉邪 褋胁械褌邪 薪邪 锌邪褉懈褌械 懈 泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈蟹屑邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 褔芯胁械泻邪 胁 褉芯斜芯褌懈蟹懈褉邪薪 褔懈薪芯胁薪懈泻. 袚芯褉写褗薪 薪械 懈褋泻邪 写邪 褍褔邪褋褌胁邪 胁 薪邪写锌褉械胁邪褉邪褌邪. 袚芯褉写褗薪 懈褋泻邪 写邪 卸懈胁械械 褋锌芯泻芯泄薪芯, 写芯褉懈 邪泻芯 褌芯胁邪 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪 屑邪谢泻芯 薪邪写 谢懈薪懈褟褌邪 薪邪 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪. 袚芯褉写褗薪 锌褉芯褋褌芯 薪械 卸械谢邪械 鈥炐葱� 谐芯 蟹邪泻邪褔邪褌鈥�.
袙 褋懈屑胁芯谢 薪邪 薪械谐芯胁邪褌邪 胁芯泄薪邪 褋褗褋 蟹谢邪褌薪懈褟 褌械谢械褑 懈 械褋薪邪褎褋泻懈褟 卸懈胁芯褌械褑 褋械 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 邪褋锌懈写懈褋褌褉邪褌邪 鈥� fleur du mal, 薪械锌褉械褌械薪褑懈芯蟹薪芯 褋邪泻褋懈泄薪芯 褑胁械褌械, 泻芯械褌芯 锌褉懈谢懈褔薪懈褌械, 薪芯褉屑邪谢薪懈, 蟹邪写芯屑械薪懈 褏芯褉邪 褋谢邪谐邪褌 薪邪 锌械褉胁邪蟹懈褌械 褋懈, 褉械褕懈褌械谢械薪 斜械谢械谐, 褔械 褋邪 写芯写褉邪锌邪谢懈 写芯 褋褉械写薪懈褟 褋芯褑懈邪谢械薪 褋谢芯泄.
小邪屑芯 褔械 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 胁 写芯斜褉芯胁芯谢薪邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌 褋褗胁褋械屑 薪械 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 褋锌芯泻芯泄薪芯. 袨褋芯斜械薪芯 邪泻芯 褋懈 芯褌 屑邪褌械褉懈邪谢邪, 芯褌 泻芯泄褌芯 械 薪邪锌褉邪胁械薪 袚芯褉写褗薪 鈥� 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪芯 褌褖械褋谢邪胁懈械, 锌褉懈谢懈褔薪邪 薪邪褔械褌械薪芯褋褌 懈 屑薪芯谐芯 写芯斜褉芯 锌芯蟹薪邪胁邪薪械 薪邪 薪邪褔懈薪邪, 锌芯 泻芯泄褌芯 卸懈胁械褟褌 蟹邪屑芯卸薪懈褌械 褏芯褉邪. 孝芯胁邪 胁芯写懈 写芯 斜械写薪芯褋褌 芯褌 芯褋芯斜械薪 褌懈锌 鈥� 薪械 斜械蟹锌褉芯褋胁械褌薪邪褌邪 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟, 胁 泻芯褟褌芯 褋械 褉邪卸写邪褌, 卸懈胁械褟褌 懈 褍屑懈褉邪褌 锌芯泻芯谢械薪懈褟 褉邪斜芯褌薪懈褑懈 芯褌 褎邪斜褉懈泻懈褌械. 袙 芯褌褉械写械薪邪褌邪 懈屑 懈蟹薪邪褔邪谢薪芯 斜械写薪芯褋褌 褌械 褍褋锌褟胁邪褌 写邪 懈蟹胁谢械泻邪褌 薪褟泻邪泻胁邪 械胁褌懈薪邪 褉邪写芯褋褌. 袚芯褉写褗薪 芯斜邪褔械 薪械 褍褋锌褟胁邪 写邪 锌芯薪械褋械 写芯褋褌芯泄薪芯 褋邪屑芯薪邪谢芯卸械薪邪褌邪 褋懈褉芯屑邪褕懈褟 鈥� 谢懈锌褋懈褌械 谐芯 芯蟹谢芯斜褟胁邪褌 写芯 褋褌械锌械薪 薪邪 屑懈蟹邪薪褌褉芯锌懈褟, 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪 写邪 写械谐褉邪写懈褉邪 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻懈, 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 褋械 胁 写褉邪蟹薪械褖 屑褉褗薪泻邪褔, 泻芯泄褌芯 芯褌斜谢褗褋泻胁邪 胁褋械泻懈 卸械褋褌 薪邪 写芯斜褉芯薪邪屑械褉械薪芯褋褌 懈 谢褞斜芯胁. 袧械谐芯胁懈褟褌 胁褉邪谐 鈥� 斜芯谐褗褌 薪邪 锌邪褉懈褌械, 褋械 芯泻邪蟹胁邪 褍写芯斜薪芯 懈蟹胁懈薪械薪懈械 蟹邪 芯褌泻邪蟹 芯褌 胁褋褟泻邪 斜械蟹锌谢邪褌薪邪 褉邪写芯褋褌 胁 卸懈胁芯褌邪. 袥械褋薪芯 械 写邪 褋械 泻邪卸械 芯斜邪褔械, 褔械 袚芯褉写褗薪 械 写褉邪蟹薪械褖 懈 褌芯褔泻邪. 肖械薪芯屑械薪褗褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉械写褋褌邪胁谢褟胁邪, 械 屑薪芯谐芯 锌褉邪胁写懈胁芯 褍谢芯胁械薪 懈 写邪谢械褔 薪械 械 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 褉褟写褗泻.
袩褉懈褟褌械谢褟褌 懈 锌芯泻褉芯胁懈褌械谢 袪械泄胁褗谢褋褌芯褍薪 褋 薪械谐芯胁邪褌邪 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪邪 胁懈薪邪 芯褌 褌芯胁邪, 褔械 薪邪 褌芯蟹懈 褋胁褟褌 懈屑邪 斜械写薪懈, 邪 褌芯泄 械 斜芯谐邪褌, 屑薪芯谐芯 薪邪锌芯屑薪褟 薪邪 写薪械褕薪邪褌邪 械褋褌械褌懈泻邪, 谢懈褑械屑械褉薪芯 褉芯屑邪薪褌懈蟹懈褉邪褖邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌褌邪. 袧械褖芯, 泻褗屑 泻芯械褌芯 褋邪屑芯 褔芯胁械泻, 泻芯泄褌芯 械 邪斜褋芯谢褞褌薪芯 薪械-斜械写械薪, 斜懈 屑芯谐褗谢 写邪 褋械 褋褌褉械屑懈.
鈥炐愌佇啃感葱秆佈傃€邪褌邪鈥� 械 锌褉芯锌懈褌邪 芯褌 卸谢褗褔 泻薪懈谐邪, 懈蟹泻谢褞褔懈褌械谢薪芯 芯褋褌褉邪, 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪邪 懈 褏邪锌谢懈胁邪, 懈 褌芯胁邪 械 写芯斜褉械 写邪 褋械 蟹薪邪械, 邪泻芯 褋褌械 薪邪褋褌褉芯械薪懈 薪邪 锌芯-薪械卸薪邪 胁褗谢薪邪. 袛邪 泻邪卸械屑, 褔械 邪泻芯 袦懈褕械谢 校械谢斜械泻 斜械褕械 卸懈胁褟谢 锌褉械蟹 30-褌械 谐芯写懈薪懈 薪邪 20 胁械泻, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 懈蟹谢懈蟹邪 褉芯屑邪薪邪, 屑芯卸械 斜懈 褖械褕械 写邪 薪邪锌懈褕械 薪械褖芯 屑薪芯谐芯 锌芯写芯斜薪芯. 袧邪 屑械薪 褌邪泻懈胁邪 泻薪懈谐懈 褋邪 屑懈 芯褌 谢褞斜懈屑懈褌械, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 懈屑邪 褎械薪芯屑械薪懈, 泻芯懈褌芯 薪褟屑邪 泻邪泻 写邪 锌芯泻邪卸械褕 写械谢懈泻邪褌薪芯, 斜械蟹 写邪 芯谐芯谢懈褕 蟹褗斜懈. 袨褋褌褉芯褌邪褌邪 芯斜邪褔械 薪械 锌褉械褔懈 薪邪 褔褍胁褋褌胁懈褌械谢薪邪褌邪 褌褉邪泻褌芯胁泻邪 薪械 褋邪屑芯 薪邪 斜懈褌芯胁懈褌械, 薪芯 懈 薪邪 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪懈褌械 懈 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈 懈蟹屑械褉械薪懈褟 薪邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌褌邪 懈 褉邪蟹谢懈褔薪懈褌械 泄 薪褞邪薪褋懈.
袩芯锌邪写薪邪褏 薪邪 屑薪械薪懈褟, 褔械 胁 褌芯蟹懈 褉芯屑邪薪 袨褉褍械谢 褋械 锌芯写懈谐褉邪胁邪谢 褋 写懈胁懈褟 泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈蟹褗屑 胁 薪邪泄-泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 褋褌褉邪薪邪 胁 袝胁褉芯锌邪 鈥� 袗薪谐谢懈褟. 袧芯 褋锌芯褉械写 屑械薪 械 褌芯褔薪芯 芯斜褉邪褌薪芯褌芯 鈥� 褌芯胁邪 械 泻薪懈谐邪 蟹邪 薪械懈蟹斜械卸薪芯褌芯 锌褉懈械屑邪薪械 薪邪 褉械邪谢薪芯褋褌懈褌械. 小邪屑懈褟褌 袨褉褍械谢 谐芯 锌褉懈蟹薪邪胁邪 鈥� 邪泻芯 懈褋泻邪褕 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 懈蟹胁褗薪 锌褉邪胁懈谢邪褌邪 薪邪 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯褌芯, 褋懈 懈谢懈 锌褉械褋褌褗锌薪懈泻, 懈谢懈 芯褌褕械谢薪懈泻-褋胁械褌械褑.
鈥炐捬佈徯盒� 懈薪褌械谢懈谐械薪褌薪芯 褕械褋褌薪邪泄褋械褌谐芯写懈褕薪芯 屑芯屑褔械 械 褋芯褑懈邪谢懈褋褌. 袧邪 褌邪褟 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌 褔芯胁械泻 薪械 蟹邪斜械谢褟蟹胁邪 芯褋褌褉懈械褌芯 薪邪 泻褍泻懈褔泻邪褌邪, 褋褌褗褉褔邪褖芯 懈蟹锌芯写 邪锌械褌懈褌薪邪褌邪 褋褌褉褗胁.鈥�
鈥炐熝娧€胁芯褌芯 褋谢械写褋褌胁懈械 芯褌 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪 械, 褔械 褌褟 褍斜懈胁邪 褋锌芯褋芯斜薪芯褋褌褌邪 蟹邪 屑懈褋谢械薪械.鈥�
鈥炐� 斜械写薪懈褟褌 薪械 蟹薪邪械 泻邪泻 写邪 褏邪褉褔懈 写芯褉懈 泻芯谐邪褌芯 褋械 褋谢褍褔懈 写邪 懈屑邪 锌邪褉懈.鈥�
袚芯褉写褗薪 懈写胁邪 芯褌 褉芯写 薪邪 写褉械斜薪芯斜褍褉卸芯邪蟹薪懈 薪械褍写邪褔薪懈褑懈 懈 褋邪屑懈褟褌 褌芯泄 胁褗褉胁懈 褋 斜褗褉蟹懈 泻褉邪褔泻懈 泻褗屑 褋褗褖邪褌邪 褋褗写斜邪. 袗 懈薪邪褔械 械 褍屑械薪 懈 褋锌芯褋芯斜械薪 屑谢邪写 屑褗卸, 褍屑械谢 褋 写褍屑懈褌械, 懈 懈屑邪 胁褋懈褔泻懈 褕邪薪褋芯胁械 写邪 褋械 懈蟹写懈谐薪械 泻邪褌芯 褋褗褋褌邪胁懈褌械谢 薪邪 褉械泻谢邪屑薪懈 褌械泻褋褌芯胁械. 小邪屑芯 褔械 袚芯褉写褗薪 锌褉械蟹懈褉邪 褋胁械褌邪 薪邪 锌邪褉懈褌械 懈 泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈蟹屑邪, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 褔芯胁械泻邪 胁 褉芯斜芯褌懈蟹懈褉邪薪 褔懈薪芯胁薪懈泻. 袚芯褉写褗薪 薪械 懈褋泻邪 写邪 褍褔邪褋褌胁邪 胁 薪邪写锌褉械胁邪褉邪褌邪. 袚芯褉写褗薪 懈褋泻邪 写邪 卸懈胁械械 褋锌芯泻芯泄薪芯, 写芯褉懈 邪泻芯 褌芯胁邪 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪 屑邪谢泻芯 薪邪写 谢懈薪懈褟褌邪 薪邪 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪. 袚芯褉写褗薪 锌褉芯褋褌芯 薪械 卸械谢邪械 鈥炐葱� 谐芯 蟹邪泻邪褔邪褌鈥�.
袙 褋懈屑胁芯谢 薪邪 薪械谐芯胁邪褌邪 胁芯泄薪邪 褋褗褋 蟹谢邪褌薪懈褟 褌械谢械褑 懈 械褋薪邪褎褋泻懈褟 卸懈胁芯褌械褑 褋械 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 邪褋锌懈写懈褋褌褉邪褌邪 鈥� fleur du mal, 薪械锌褉械褌械薪褑懈芯蟹薪芯 褋邪泻褋懈泄薪芯 褑胁械褌械, 泻芯械褌芯 锌褉懈谢懈褔薪懈褌械, 薪芯褉屑邪谢薪懈, 蟹邪写芯屑械薪懈 褏芯褉邪 褋谢邪谐邪褌 薪邪 锌械褉胁邪蟹懈褌械 褋懈, 褉械褕懈褌械谢械薪 斜械谢械谐, 褔械 褋邪 写芯写褉邪锌邪谢懈 写芯 褋褉械写薪懈褟 褋芯褑懈邪谢械薪 褋谢芯泄.
小邪屑芯 褔械 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 胁 写芯斜褉芯胁芯谢薪邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌 褋褗胁褋械屑 薪械 芯蟹薪邪褔邪胁邪 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 褋锌芯泻芯泄薪芯. 袨褋芯斜械薪芯 邪泻芯 褋懈 芯褌 屑邪褌械褉懈邪谢邪, 芯褌 泻芯泄褌芯 械 薪邪锌褉邪胁械薪 袚芯褉写褗薪 鈥� 谢懈褌械褉邪褌褍褉薪芯 褌褖械褋谢邪胁懈械, 锌褉懈谢懈褔薪邪 薪邪褔械褌械薪芯褋褌 懈 屑薪芯谐芯 写芯斜褉芯 锌芯蟹薪邪胁邪薪械 薪邪 薪邪褔懈薪邪, 锌芯 泻芯泄褌芯 卸懈胁械褟褌 蟹邪屑芯卸薪懈褌械 褏芯褉邪. 孝芯胁邪 胁芯写懈 写芯 斜械写薪芯褋褌 芯褌 芯褋芯斜械薪 褌懈锌 鈥� 薪械 斜械蟹锌褉芯褋胁械褌薪邪褌邪 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟, 胁 泻芯褟褌芯 褋械 褉邪卸写邪褌, 卸懈胁械褟褌 懈 褍屑懈褉邪褌 锌芯泻芯谢械薪懈褟 褉邪斜芯褌薪懈褑懈 芯褌 褎邪斜褉懈泻懈褌械. 袙 芯褌褉械写械薪邪褌邪 懈屑 懈蟹薪邪褔邪谢薪芯 斜械写薪芯褋褌 褌械 褍褋锌褟胁邪褌 写邪 懈蟹胁谢械泻邪褌 薪褟泻邪泻胁邪 械胁褌懈薪邪 褉邪写芯褋褌. 袚芯褉写褗薪 芯斜邪褔械 薪械 褍褋锌褟胁邪 写邪 锌芯薪械褋械 写芯褋褌芯泄薪芯 褋邪屑芯薪邪谢芯卸械薪邪褌邪 褋懈褉芯屑邪褕懈褟 鈥� 谢懈锌褋懈褌械 谐芯 芯蟹谢芯斜褟胁邪褌 写芯 褋褌械锌械薪 薪邪 屑懈蟹邪薪褌褉芯锌懈褟, 蟹邪锌芯褔胁邪 写邪 写械谐褉邪写懈褉邪 褎懈蟹懈褔械褋泻懈, 锌褉械胁褉褗褖邪 褋械 胁 写褉邪蟹薪械褖 屑褉褗薪泻邪褔, 泻芯泄褌芯 芯褌斜谢褗褋泻胁邪 胁褋械泻懈 卸械褋褌 薪邪 写芯斜褉芯薪邪屑械褉械薪芯褋褌 懈 谢褞斜芯胁. 袧械谐芯胁懈褟褌 胁褉邪谐 鈥� 斜芯谐褗褌 薪邪 锌邪褉懈褌械, 褋械 芯泻邪蟹胁邪 褍写芯斜薪芯 懈蟹胁懈薪械薪懈械 蟹邪 芯褌泻邪蟹 芯褌 胁褋褟泻邪 斜械蟹锌谢邪褌薪邪 褉邪写芯褋褌 胁 卸懈胁芯褌邪. 袥械褋薪芯 械 写邪 褋械 泻邪卸械 芯斜邪褔械, 褔械 袚芯褉写褗薪 械 写褉邪蟹薪械褖 懈 褌芯褔泻邪. 肖械薪芯屑械薪褗褌, 泻芯泄褌芯 锌褉械写褋褌邪胁谢褟胁邪, 械 屑薪芯谐芯 锌褉邪胁写懈胁芯 褍谢芯胁械薪 懈 写邪谢械褔 薪械 械 褌芯谢泻芯胁邪 褉褟写褗泻.
袩褉懈褟褌械谢褟褌 懈 锌芯泻褉芯胁懈褌械谢 袪械泄胁褗谢褋褌芯褍薪 褋 薪械谐芯胁邪褌邪 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪邪 胁懈薪邪 芯褌 褌芯胁邪, 褔械 薪邪 褌芯蟹懈 褋胁褟褌 懈屑邪 斜械写薪懈, 邪 褌芯泄 械 斜芯谐邪褌, 屑薪芯谐芯 薪邪锌芯屑薪褟 薪邪 写薪械褕薪邪褌邪 械褋褌械褌懈泻邪, 谢懈褑械屑械褉薪芯 褉芯屑邪薪褌懈蟹懈褉邪褖邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌褌邪. 袧械褖芯, 泻褗屑 泻芯械褌芯 褋邪屑芯 褔芯胁械泻, 泻芯泄褌芯 械 邪斜褋芯谢褞褌薪芯 薪械-斜械写械薪, 斜懈 屑芯谐褗谢 写邪 褋械 褋褌褉械屑懈.
鈥炐愌佇啃感葱秆佈傃€邪褌邪鈥� 械 锌褉芯锌懈褌邪 芯褌 卸谢褗褔 泻薪懈谐邪, 懈蟹泻谢褞褔懈褌械谢薪芯 芯褋褌褉邪, 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪邪 懈 褏邪锌谢懈胁邪, 懈 褌芯胁邪 械 写芯斜褉械 写邪 褋械 蟹薪邪械, 邪泻芯 褋褌械 薪邪褋褌褉芯械薪懈 薪邪 锌芯-薪械卸薪邪 胁褗谢薪邪. 袛邪 泻邪卸械屑, 褔械 邪泻芯 袦懈褕械谢 校械谢斜械泻 斜械褕械 卸懈胁褟谢 锌褉械蟹 30-褌械 谐芯写懈薪懈 薪邪 20 胁械泻, 泻芯谐邪褌芯 懈蟹谢懈蟹邪 褉芯屑邪薪邪, 屑芯卸械 斜懈 褖械褕械 写邪 薪邪锌懈褕械 薪械褖芯 屑薪芯谐芯 锌芯写芯斜薪芯. 袧邪 屑械薪 褌邪泻懈胁邪 泻薪懈谐懈 褋邪 屑懈 芯褌 谢褞斜懈屑懈褌械, 蟹邪褖芯褌芯 懈屑邪 褎械薪芯屑械薪懈, 泻芯懈褌芯 薪褟屑邪 泻邪泻 写邪 锌芯泻邪卸械褕 写械谢懈泻邪褌薪芯, 斜械蟹 写邪 芯谐芯谢懈褕 蟹褗斜懈. 袨褋褌褉芯褌邪褌邪 芯斜邪褔械 薪械 锌褉械褔懈 薪邪 褔褍胁褋褌胁懈褌械谢薪邪褌邪 褌褉邪泻褌芯胁泻邪 薪械 褋邪屑芯 薪邪 斜懈褌芯胁懈褌械, 薪芯 懈 薪邪 褋芯褑懈邪谢薪懈褌械 懈 锌褋懈褏芯谢芯谐懈褔械褋泻懈 懈蟹屑械褉械薪懈褟 薪邪 斜械写薪芯褋褌褌邪 懈 褉邪蟹谢懈褔薪懈褌械 泄 薪褞邪薪褋懈.
袩芯锌邪写薪邪褏 薪邪 屑薪械薪懈褟, 褔械 胁 褌芯蟹懈 褉芯屑邪薪 袨褉褍械谢 褋械 锌芯写懈谐褉邪胁邪谢 褋 写懈胁懈褟 泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈蟹褗屑 胁 薪邪泄-泻邪锌懈褌邪谢懈褋褌懈褔械褋泻邪褌邪 褋褌褉邪薪邪 胁 袝胁褉芯锌邪 鈥� 袗薪谐谢懈褟. 袧芯 褋锌芯褉械写 屑械薪 械 褌芯褔薪芯 芯斜褉邪褌薪芯褌芯 鈥� 褌芯胁邪 械 泻薪懈谐邪 蟹邪 薪械懈蟹斜械卸薪芯褌芯 锌褉懈械屑邪薪械 薪邪 褉械邪谢薪芯褋褌懈褌械. 小邪屑懈褟褌 袨褉褍械谢 谐芯 锌褉懈蟹薪邪胁邪 鈥� 邪泻芯 懈褋泻邪褕 写邪 卸懈胁械械褕 懈蟹胁褗薪 锌褉邪胁懈谢邪褌邪 薪邪 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯褌芯, 褋懈 懈谢懈 锌褉械褋褌褗锌薪懈泻, 懈谢懈 芯褌褕械谢薪懈泻-褋胁械褌械褑.
鈥炐捬佈徯盒� 懈薪褌械谢懈谐械薪褌薪芯 褕械褋褌薪邪泄褋械褌谐芯写懈褕薪芯 屑芯屑褔械 械 褋芯褑懈邪谢懈褋褌. 袧邪 褌邪褟 胁褗蟹褉邪褋褌 褔芯胁械泻 薪械 蟹邪斜械谢褟蟹胁邪 芯褋褌褉懈械褌芯 薪邪 泻褍泻懈褔泻邪褌邪, 褋褌褗褉褔邪褖芯 懈蟹锌芯写 邪锌械褌懈褌薪邪褌邪 褋褌褉褗胁.鈥�
鈥炐熝娧€胁芯褌芯 褋谢械写褋褌胁懈械 芯褌 屑懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪 械, 褔械 褌褟 褍斜懈胁邪 褋锌芯褋芯斜薪芯褋褌褌邪 蟹邪 屑懈褋谢械薪械.鈥�
鈥炐� 斜械写薪懈褟褌 薪械 蟹薪邪械 泻邪泻 写邪 褏邪褉褔懈 写芯褉懈 泻芯谐邪褌芯 褋械 褋谢褍褔懈 写邪 懈屑邪 锌邪褉懈.鈥�
July 31, 2014
If you have seen the updates you may already realize that I was not overly-keen on Gordon Comstock. Nevertheless the liking or disliking of the hero or heroine of a novel evidently does not in itself negate the quality of the writing and it is certainly true that this novel is a really powerful description of the blanching effect of poverty on the colour of life, of the crippling struggle that the poor underwent between the wars and the pitiful descriptions of scrimping and saving and the sinking sense of worth they brought were bleak and therefore very effective.
There was also real humour here though and Orwell's descriptions of the Comstock family and the demise of their shortlived wealth was really rich, if you'll pardon the inappropriate irony, in imagery as indeed was a great deal of the narrative. This sounds like a dreadful cliche but it is true that with just a few words and a swift pencil sketch he very ably conjures up in the reader's mind the character before you.
So dire poverty leading to a crushing of expectation and hope, faithful friends, all climaxing in a sort of happy ending...what is there not to like ? Well, Gordon Comstock is unbelievable and I mean that in the sense of not real and his girlfriend's blind fidelity is cloyingly insipid.
The reasons for his declared intention to step out of money and society is never really explained and not really ever lived out. He behaves like the grungy 13 year old who leaves his room in a mess, puts big childishly drawn pictures reading ' Do Not enter ' and ' No grown ups allowed ' on the door but then moans and gripes when his tea isn't ready. Rosemary and his wealthy mate Ravelston nobly stick by him but their fidelity just didn't ring true. His continual rejection of their offers of help and support, his petulant bleatings about how Rosemary's actions towards him were all based on his lack or possession of money, his continual abuse of his poverty-stricken sister's adoration and generosity served only to make him more loathsome and horrendously lacking in self-knowledge.
Orwell has written a powerful description of poverty and its accruing horrors but it is Julia, the sister, who really undergoes this. Comstock, Orwell imagines, always has the safety net of his previous ' Good job' to return to; in the 1930's this seems unlikely. If Ravelston, Julia, his previous employer and most of all Rosemary really loved him they ought to have shaken the pretentious little arse and made him grow up.
Had Comstock been more believable this would have been a four star edging upwards but his character just didn't ring true; he came across as a device which Orwell could use so as to berate society, poverty and the rest. The nigh on saintliness of the three other main protagonists was also out of place in a realistic novel. Their turning of the other cheek or turning a blind eye to Comstock's stupidity and never forcing him to seriously address what he was doing or why, was laziness on the part of Orwell cos had they done so, Orwell himself would have had to find an explanation and I am not sure he had one.
There was also real humour here though and Orwell's descriptions of the Comstock family and the demise of their shortlived wealth was really rich, if you'll pardon the inappropriate irony, in imagery as indeed was a great deal of the narrative. This sounds like a dreadful cliche but it is true that with just a few words and a swift pencil sketch he very ably conjures up in the reader's mind the character before you.
So dire poverty leading to a crushing of expectation and hope, faithful friends, all climaxing in a sort of happy ending...what is there not to like ? Well, Gordon Comstock is unbelievable and I mean that in the sense of not real and his girlfriend's blind fidelity is cloyingly insipid.
The reasons for his declared intention to step out of money and society is never really explained and not really ever lived out. He behaves like the grungy 13 year old who leaves his room in a mess, puts big childishly drawn pictures reading ' Do Not enter ' and ' No grown ups allowed ' on the door but then moans and gripes when his tea isn't ready. Rosemary and his wealthy mate Ravelston nobly stick by him but their fidelity just didn't ring true. His continual rejection of their offers of help and support, his petulant bleatings about how Rosemary's actions towards him were all based on his lack or possession of money, his continual abuse of his poverty-stricken sister's adoration and generosity served only to make him more loathsome and horrendously lacking in self-knowledge.
Orwell has written a powerful description of poverty and its accruing horrors but it is Julia, the sister, who really undergoes this. Comstock, Orwell imagines, always has the safety net of his previous ' Good job' to return to; in the 1930's this seems unlikely. If Ravelston, Julia, his previous employer and most of all Rosemary really loved him they ought to have shaken the pretentious little arse and made him grow up.
Had Comstock been more believable this would have been a four star edging upwards but his character just didn't ring true; he came across as a device which Orwell could use so as to berate society, poverty and the rest. The nigh on saintliness of the three other main protagonists was also out of place in a realistic novel. Their turning of the other cheek or turning a blind eye to Comstock's stupidity and never forcing him to seriously address what he was doing or why, was laziness on the part of Orwell cos had they done so, Orwell himself would have had to find an explanation and I am not sure he had one.
March 24, 2018
I bloody love Orwell. He's not a perfect author and couldn't keep politics or social commentary out of his fiction, but that's part of his appeal. Yes, he banged on constantly about poverty, or war and far too often revealed his lecharous side. I forgive it all. Orwell had something he wanted to say and he found a way to say it. I don't agree with everything, I'm not blown away by his writing, but I am sad that I've now read all of his stories.
March 10, 2012
Wow, what a tiresome book! The reason I even gave it three stars is because it's an Orwell book and, as such, he doesn't disappoint us with his wit, satire and irony. However, the story itself was lacking.Orwell must have been in a very misanthropic mood when he wrote this.
The main character, Gordon, is so depressing and unlikeable; he ties everything to money (for example, it took him an hour to shave one morning because he didn't have enough money). I just got so sick and tired of hearing about how poor he was and how people treated him due to his lack of money (I believe most of the cases were delusion on his part).The fact that he has such an understanding girlfriend is beyond me.
Gordon declares war on money. I think his declaration is misguided as he lives in London and needs money to survive. Also, he hopes to be a famous poet one day so he would get paid from that. I just didn't get his reasoning for declaring war on the 'money god.'
So, in summary, I didn't waste my time reading this book but it's definitely not one I would choose to read again.
The main character, Gordon, is so depressing and unlikeable; he ties everything to money (for example, it took him an hour to shave one morning because he didn't have enough money). I just got so sick and tired of hearing about how poor he was and how people treated him due to his lack of money (I believe most of the cases were delusion on his part).The fact that he has such an understanding girlfriend is beyond me.
Gordon declares war on money. I think his declaration is misguided as he lives in London and needs money to survive. Also, he hopes to be a famous poet one day so he would get paid from that. I just didn't get his reasoning for declaring war on the 'money god.'
So, in summary, I didn't waste my time reading this book but it's definitely not one I would choose to read again.
June 9, 2017
"The mistake you make, don't you see, is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing."
I thoroughly enjoyed this little book. If you like Orwell you will love Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
I thoroughly enjoyed this little book. If you like Orwell you will love Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
March 15, 2015
A Note on the Text
--Keep the Aspidistra Flying
--Keep the Aspidistra Flying
November 29, 2020
Un racconto molto psicologico ma al tempo stesso molto concreto. L'evoluzione psicologica qui narrata ha una vaga somiglianza con quella che si trova ne La cura di Hesse - per lo meno - solo che qui c'猫 molta pi霉 immediatezza. C'猫 anche la dimostrazione pratica di una morale per nulla trascurabile: una scelta fatta perch茅 "bisogna" fare cos矛 o perch茅 tutti fanno cos矛 猫 una cosa che non vale niente; una scelta fatta perch茅 la si 猫 sentita e riflettuta e decisa, allora vale tutto. A parte questo, non giudica cosa 猫 giusto o sbagliato, cosa 猫 buono o cattivo: critica, ma senza sputare sentenze.
Sin dall'inizio della lettura sono andata chiedendomi: com'猫 che quando si parla del romanzo della normalit脿, della borghesit脿 e anche della mediocrit脿, tutti esaltano Stoner con trionfali squilli di trombe e invece questo non viene mai - dico mai - nominato?
Se La fattoria degli animali 猫 una racconto non solo invecchiato ma del tutto superato, e se anche 1984 pu貌 apparire per certi aspetti invecchiato malino, questo romanzo 猫 stupefacente per la sua attualit脿 e modernit脿. Di pi霉: quella capacit脿 di preveggenza che di solito si attribuisce a Orwell con riferimento a 1984 - anche se poi andando a vedere nel dettaglio concreto del romanzo non si sa bene a che cosa la si debba riferire - dicevo, quella capacit脿 di preveggenza si manifesta invece qui in modo strabiliante, quasi da novello Nostradamus: nel 1935 Orwell scrive questo romanzo e fa immaginare al suo protagonista (e suo alter ego) gli aerei che sorvolano Londra per bombardarla. Da stare nel 1935 Orwell critica il capitalismo, il consumismo sfrenato e fine a s茅 stesso e senza via d'uscita, le pubblicit脿 truffaldine e invadenti, l'onnipotenza del dio denaro e il senso di vuoto di milioni di esistenze, critica tutto questo proprio come se lo stesse guardando da stare nel ventunesimo secolo.
"C'猫 qualche cosa di terribile in Londra la sera; la freddezza, l'essere anonimi, l'isolamento. Sette milioni di persone che, in perenne andirivieni, evitano ogni contatto, appena consapevoli dell'esistenza l'uno dell'altro, come pesci nella vasca di un acquario."
"Chilometri e chilometri di case modeste, solitarie, tutte ad appartamentini e camere in affitto; non focolari, non comunit脿, ma semplicemente fasci di vite senza senso trascinate da una specie di caos sonnolento in lenta deriva verso la tomba! Vedeva passare uomini come cadaveri deambulanti."
Parlando di un cartellone pubblicitario: "Osserva per un momento la faccia di quel tizio che sembra guardarci con espressione beota. Puoi vedere tutta la nostra civilt脿 scritta su quella faccia. L'imbecillit脿, la vacuit脿, la desolazione della nostra civilt脿!"
Nel corso del racconto, di pagina in pagina, di episodio in episodio, la pianta dell'aspidistra viene eletta a simbolo supremo, rappresentante assoluta del borghese e dell'uomo mediocre, e il protagonista la eleva al grado di suo nemico non solo in senso figurato ma anche in senso reale; la vede ad ogni finestra, su ogni davanzale e gli pare letteralmente di vedere un vessillo che sventola. Io di aspidistra non ne ho mai vista una, suppongo che se uno volesse fare una sorta di traduzione ragionata la si potrebbe sostituire con il ficus beniamino: non c'猫 appartamento, salottino, pianerottolo, ufficio, sala d'attesa, studio dentistico, hall di ingresso in cui il ficus non faccia bella mostra di s茅; e se da un lato lo si pu貌 associare a un lodevole intento di ingentilire e perfezionare un ambiente, dall'altro non 猫 poi cos矛 assurdo associarlo a un vago senso di abbandono e/o polverosit脿.
Il protagonista 猫 una figura reale, completa e complessa: a tratti insopportabile, a tratti commovente, a volte 猫 irragionevole e altre volte 猫 impossibile non condividerne i punti di vista. E' ovvio di come si tratti di un personaggio fortemente autobiografico, ed 猫 altrettanto ovvio di come sia il frutto di una penna capace di eccellente elaborazione che non si accontenterebbe di spiattellare l矛 un qualche clich茅 tanto per compiacersi della creazione letteraria.
La descrizione dei bassifondi e anche di tutta Londra in generale, per quanto l'epoca sia ben differente, 猫 molto dickesiana, e questo 猫 un aspetto che rende ulteriormente piacevole la lettura.
Lettura consigliatissima e che meriterebbe ben maggiore popolarit脿.
Edit: e aggiungiamola pure, un'immagine di questa aspidistra, dopo tutto un po' di visibilit脿 se l'猫 meritata.
Sin dall'inizio della lettura sono andata chiedendomi: com'猫 che quando si parla del romanzo della normalit脿, della borghesit脿 e anche della mediocrit脿, tutti esaltano Stoner con trionfali squilli di trombe e invece questo non viene mai - dico mai - nominato?
Se La fattoria degli animali 猫 una racconto non solo invecchiato ma del tutto superato, e se anche 1984 pu貌 apparire per certi aspetti invecchiato malino, questo romanzo 猫 stupefacente per la sua attualit脿 e modernit脿. Di pi霉: quella capacit脿 di preveggenza che di solito si attribuisce a Orwell con riferimento a 1984 - anche se poi andando a vedere nel dettaglio concreto del romanzo non si sa bene a che cosa la si debba riferire - dicevo, quella capacit脿 di preveggenza si manifesta invece qui in modo strabiliante, quasi da novello Nostradamus: nel 1935 Orwell scrive questo romanzo e fa immaginare al suo protagonista (e suo alter ego) gli aerei che sorvolano Londra per bombardarla. Da stare nel 1935 Orwell critica il capitalismo, il consumismo sfrenato e fine a s茅 stesso e senza via d'uscita, le pubblicit脿 truffaldine e invadenti, l'onnipotenza del dio denaro e il senso di vuoto di milioni di esistenze, critica tutto questo proprio come se lo stesse guardando da stare nel ventunesimo secolo.
"C'猫 qualche cosa di terribile in Londra la sera; la freddezza, l'essere anonimi, l'isolamento. Sette milioni di persone che, in perenne andirivieni, evitano ogni contatto, appena consapevoli dell'esistenza l'uno dell'altro, come pesci nella vasca di un acquario."
"Chilometri e chilometri di case modeste, solitarie, tutte ad appartamentini e camere in affitto; non focolari, non comunit脿, ma semplicemente fasci di vite senza senso trascinate da una specie di caos sonnolento in lenta deriva verso la tomba! Vedeva passare uomini come cadaveri deambulanti."
Parlando di un cartellone pubblicitario: "Osserva per un momento la faccia di quel tizio che sembra guardarci con espressione beota. Puoi vedere tutta la nostra civilt脿 scritta su quella faccia. L'imbecillit脿, la vacuit脿, la desolazione della nostra civilt脿!"
Nel corso del racconto, di pagina in pagina, di episodio in episodio, la pianta dell'aspidistra viene eletta a simbolo supremo, rappresentante assoluta del borghese e dell'uomo mediocre, e il protagonista la eleva al grado di suo nemico non solo in senso figurato ma anche in senso reale; la vede ad ogni finestra, su ogni davanzale e gli pare letteralmente di vedere un vessillo che sventola. Io di aspidistra non ne ho mai vista una, suppongo che se uno volesse fare una sorta di traduzione ragionata la si potrebbe sostituire con il ficus beniamino: non c'猫 appartamento, salottino, pianerottolo, ufficio, sala d'attesa, studio dentistico, hall di ingresso in cui il ficus non faccia bella mostra di s茅; e se da un lato lo si pu貌 associare a un lodevole intento di ingentilire e perfezionare un ambiente, dall'altro non 猫 poi cos矛 assurdo associarlo a un vago senso di abbandono e/o polverosit脿.
Il protagonista 猫 una figura reale, completa e complessa: a tratti insopportabile, a tratti commovente, a volte 猫 irragionevole e altre volte 猫 impossibile non condividerne i punti di vista. E' ovvio di come si tratti di un personaggio fortemente autobiografico, ed 猫 altrettanto ovvio di come sia il frutto di una penna capace di eccellente elaborazione che non si accontenterebbe di spiattellare l矛 un qualche clich茅 tanto per compiacersi della creazione letteraria.
La descrizione dei bassifondi e anche di tutta Londra in generale, per quanto l'epoca sia ben differente, 猫 molto dickesiana, e questo 猫 un aspetto che rende ulteriormente piacevole la lettura.
Lettura consigliatissima e che meriterebbe ben maggiore popolarit脿.
Edit: e aggiungiamola pure, un'immagine di questa aspidistra, dopo tutto un po' di visibilit脿 se l'猫 meritata.
June 4, 2024
George Orwell created many characters who went against the grain of contemporary society but perhaps none as self-defeating & uncompromising as Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying, a poorly-paid, minimally-employed man at a back-street London bookstore that also loans books out to patrons.
Gordon Comstock's demeanor is rather bewildering--dismissive of most potential customers who enter the shop, while conveying a sense of personal disintegration, desolation & emptiness, as he proclaims the approaching doom of a society ruled by the "money god".
The Comstocks are said to stand as:
The novel's namesake plant, the Aspidistra (a.k.a. "Cast Iron Plant"), functions like a silent character, a symbol of just making do, of merely scraping by, with Gordon declaring that the plant should be on the coat-of-arms, instead of the lion & the unicorn. Gordon had read about poor carpenter who pawned everything he owned except his aspidistra.
But as the Comstock family has experienced decline, his sister Julia has sensed promise in Gordon, sacrificing greatly so that he might serve to rescue the family. Meanwhile Gordon walks away from 2 jobs that held promise while bemoaning the "moneyed highbrows, sleek young animals who suck in money & culture with their mother's milk."
He seems a masochist, a character who displays purposefully destructive behavior, even as others, including his sister Julia & a love interest, Rosemary, aspire to help Gordon, whose poetry has also failed to gain much of a response. His book of poetry is called Mice & Gordon refers to the poems as "abortions in a labelled jar".
In the midst of such seemingly terminal discontent & whatever one's political-economic views, what enhances this & other Orwell novels is the prose, with this as an example:
However, while Gordon Comstock lies cold & unwashed, "his sock full of holes (more holes than sock) on a ragged bed in his slum attic, his aspidistra withered, with 3 decades done & nothing accomplished in life", an unexpected transformation may be about to occur, one I won't reveal to potential readers of Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
I can understand why reading about troubled, overworked, underpaid, down & out souls in places like London, Paris & Wigan Pier may be tiresome for some but I found Orwell's novel quite worth reading, in part for its expressive phrasings. As George Orwell once put it: "Language ought to be the joint creation of poets & manual workers".
*Within my review are the images of George Orwell, an aspidistra plant, a small London bookshop in the 1930s & a recent New Yorker magazine cartoon.
Gordon Comstock's demeanor is rather bewildering--dismissive of most potential customers who enter the shop, while conveying a sense of personal disintegration, desolation & emptiness, as he proclaims the approaching doom of a society ruled by the "money god".
The Comstocks are said to stand as:
the middle of the middle class landless gentry, a dull, shabby, dead-alive, ineffectual family, a listless, gutless, unsuccessful people who drifted along in an atmosphere of semi-genteel failure.From such beginnings, perhaps it is easy to reckon why Gordon is less than energetic to make a success of his life.
The novel's namesake plant, the Aspidistra (a.k.a. "Cast Iron Plant"), functions like a silent character, a symbol of just making do, of merely scraping by, with Gordon declaring that the plant should be on the coat-of-arms, instead of the lion & the unicorn. Gordon had read about poor carpenter who pawned everything he owned except his aspidistra.
But as the Comstock family has experienced decline, his sister Julia has sensed promise in Gordon, sacrificing greatly so that he might serve to rescue the family. Meanwhile Gordon walks away from 2 jobs that held promise while bemoaning the "moneyed highbrows, sleek young animals who suck in money & culture with their mother's milk."
He seems a masochist, a character who displays purposefully destructive behavior, even as others, including his sister Julia & a love interest, Rosemary, aspire to help Gordon, whose poetry has also failed to gain much of a response. His book of poetry is called Mice & Gordon refers to the poems as "abortions in a labelled jar".
In the midst of such seemingly terminal discontent & whatever one's political-economic views, what enhances this & other Orwell novels is the prose, with this as an example:
Something deep below made the stone street shiver. The tube-train, sliding through middle earth. He had a vision of London, of the western world; he saw millions of slaves toiling & grovelling about the throne of money. The earth is ploughed, ships sail, miners sweat in dripping underground tunnels, clerks hurry for the 8:15 with the fear of the boss eating at their vitals.An amazing, intriguing, occasionally baffling litany of Orwellian alienation but by way of well-crafted images.
Even in bed with their wives, they tremble & obey. Obey whom? The money priesthood, the pink-faced masters of the world. The upper crust. A welter of sleek young rabbits in a thousand guinea motor cars, of golfing stockbrokers & cosmopolitan financiers, of bankers, newspaper peers, novelists of all four sexes, American pugilists, lady aviators, film stars, bishops, titled poets & Chicago gorillas.
However, while Gordon Comstock lies cold & unwashed, "his sock full of holes (more holes than sock) on a ragged bed in his slum attic, his aspidistra withered, with 3 decades done & nothing accomplished in life", an unexpected transformation may be about to occur, one I won't reveal to potential readers of Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying.
I can understand why reading about troubled, overworked, underpaid, down & out souls in places like London, Paris & Wigan Pier may be tiresome for some but I found Orwell's novel quite worth reading, in part for its expressive phrasings. As George Orwell once put it: "Language ought to be the joint creation of poets & manual workers".
*Within my review are the images of George Orwell, an aspidistra plant, a small London bookshop in the 1930s & a recent New Yorker magazine cartoon.
January 15, 2019
I enjoyed this one of Orwells, written in 1936, and set in 1930s London. Gordon is a character set up to be pitied and despised, but who also grudgingly earns some respect, for sticking to his philosophy - no matter how theoretical and impractical it is.
There is no doubt the novel is deep into description - and for me that was what made it, the descriptive 1930s London, the grimy and impoverished existence of Gordon Comstock, the mundanities of every-day life in a going nowhere job, a struggling poet in the evening. The aspidistra as a symbol of middle-middle-class, Gordon's reluctance to use his three penny bit (which he calls a Joey) and his view that everyone would know it was his last coin.
Gordon offers enough for the reader to become, at least, partly invested in him. He lives a meagre existence by choice, nevertheless disdains it. He resigns from a good job, as he declared his 'war on money' and seeks only 'a job' (but not a 'good job'), while continually blaming his lack of money for his failure of a social life, and his going-nowhere relationship with Rosemary.
Of the other characters, Ravelston is for me the most interesting. Ravelston is relatively wealthy, but lives down as a part of his belief in socialism, become a benefactor to Gordon, trying as he might to encourage him to further his poetry, and using his position as an editor of a socialist magazine to publish a little of Gordon's work. Gordon is constantly battling against Ravelston, determined not to bludge off him, yet looking up to him at the same time.
While others may consider it too long, I enjoyed the descriptive nature of this story, and could have read more, and particularly enjoyed the bookshop description, and the scenes of public transport, and London in general.
4.5 stars, rounded down, as it isn't quite a 5 star book.
Some quotes:
They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens.
--
Gordon put his hand against the swing door. He even pushed it open a few inches. The warm fog of smoke and beer slipped through the crack. A familiar, reviving smell; nevertheless as he smelled it his nerve failed him. No! Impossible to go in. He turned away. He couldn't go shoving into that saloon bar with only fourpence halfpenny in his pocket. Never let other people buy your drinks for you! The first commandment of the moneyless. He made off down the dark pavement.
--
鈥淭he mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.鈥�
--
The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.鈥�
There is no doubt the novel is deep into description - and for me that was what made it, the descriptive 1930s London, the grimy and impoverished existence of Gordon Comstock, the mundanities of every-day life in a going nowhere job, a struggling poet in the evening. The aspidistra as a symbol of middle-middle-class, Gordon's reluctance to use his three penny bit (which he calls a Joey) and his view that everyone would know it was his last coin.
Gordon offers enough for the reader to become, at least, partly invested in him. He lives a meagre existence by choice, nevertheless disdains it. He resigns from a good job, as he declared his 'war on money' and seeks only 'a job' (but not a 'good job'), while continually blaming his lack of money for his failure of a social life, and his going-nowhere relationship with Rosemary.
Of the other characters, Ravelston is for me the most interesting. Ravelston is relatively wealthy, but lives down as a part of his belief in socialism, become a benefactor to Gordon, trying as he might to encourage him to further his poetry, and using his position as an editor of a socialist magazine to publish a little of Gordon's work. Gordon is constantly battling against Ravelston, determined not to bludge off him, yet looking up to him at the same time.
While others may consider it too long, I enjoyed the descriptive nature of this story, and could have read more, and particularly enjoyed the bookshop description, and the scenes of public transport, and London in general.
4.5 stars, rounded down, as it isn't quite a 5 star book.
Some quotes:
They were one of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle class, in which nothing ever happens.
--
Gordon put his hand against the swing door. He even pushed it open a few inches. The warm fog of smoke and beer slipped through the crack. A familiar, reviving smell; nevertheless as he smelled it his nerve failed him. No! Impossible to go in. He turned away. He couldn't go shoving into that saloon bar with only fourpence halfpenny in his pocket. Never let other people buy your drinks for you! The first commandment of the moneyless. He made off down the dark pavement.
--
鈥淭he mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.鈥�
--
The aspidistra became a sort of symbol for Gordon after that. The aspidistra, the flower of England! It ought to be on our coat of arms instead of the lion and the unicorn. There will be no revolution in England while there are aspidistras in the windows.鈥�
February 25, 2021
La bizzarra sensazione di essere appena diventato adulto
Dopo aver messo il libro in lettura ho chiesto a cinque persone diverse se sapessero che cosa fosse un鈥檃spidistra e nessuna di esse ha saputo rispondermi. Che parola aspra, pare una professione rettilea. Nemmeno io sapevo di che cosa si trattasse e a fine lettura, quando ne ho cercato l鈥檌mmagine su Google, sono rimasto assai sorpreso
Io questa pianta la conoscevo ma ne ignoravo il nome, ed 猫 vero che quarant鈥檃nni fa era assai diffusa anche qui da noi (*1). George Orwell la identifica come simbolo borghese degli anni 鈥�30 del 900. A proposito di quegli anni scrive
Pensano, ancora! Non importa. Ma a che cosa pensano? Ai quattrini, accidenti, ai quattrini pensano! Affitto, conti arretrati, bolletta della luce e del gas, tasse, rette scolastiche, abbonamento ferroviario, scarpe per i bambini. E alla polizza d鈥檃ssicurazione sulla vita, pensano, e al salario della domestica. E, mio Dio, guai se la moglie dovesse restare incinta un鈥檃ltra volta!
鈥淧ensano al fitto, ai conti, a gas e luce, Alle rate, alle tasse ed al carbone, Allo stipendio della serva pensano, Alle rette scolastiche, alle scarpe.鈥�
A me ha fatto pensare ad un altro monologo famoso scritto cinquant鈥檃nni dopo da un altro scrittore anglofono e probabilmente ispirato da quello Orwelliano
Scegli il mutuo da pagare, la lavatrice, la macchina; scegli di startene seduto su un divano a guardare i giochini alla televisione, a distruggerti il cervello e l鈥檃nima, a riempirti la pancia di porcherie che ti avvelenano. Scegli di marcire in un ospizio, cacandoti e pisciandoti sotto, cazzo, per la gioia di quegli stronzi egoisti e fottuti che hai messo al mondo. Scegli la vita.
Orwell chiama Welsh, Welsh chiama Boyle: rispondi Boyle
Dagli anni trenta del 鈥�900 agli anni venti del nuovo millennio: vivere integrati nella societ脿 che ci ospita ha sempre causato contrasti e nevrosi severe. Orwell racconta di Gordon Comstock, uno scrittore trentenne che ha dichiarato guerra al dio quattrino, che decide di vivere in uno stato di indigenza rinunciando al proprio lavoro di pubblicitario per non sottostare alla spirale che impone di lavorare di pi霉 per guadagnare di pi霉 ed essere allo stesso tempo sfruttati maggiormente. Gordon 猫 amico di Philip Ravelston il direttore della rivista alterativa 鈥淎nticristo鈥�; costui 猫 un personaggio paradigmatico e ricorrente in tutte le forme di protesta sociale: il ricco che si vergogna della propria ricchezza e la usa finanziando la lotta a fianco del povero (altro personaggio paradigmatico) che invidia la diseguaglianza che sta combattendo, che odia il privilegiato ma in segreto adora il privilegio. Gordon viene da una famiglia borghese caduta in disgrazia, lui non ha desideri di rivalsa, si impone invece di rinunciare al superfluo e inizia un percorso di abbruttimento che lo porter脿 a vivere in una stamberga e a lavorare come commesso in una libreria che vende volumetti a prezzo fisso. In questo quadro ha rilevanza il fatto che Gordon si senta uno scrittore alle prese con il capolavoro che lo riveler脿 al mondo intero: 鈥淧iaceri londinesi鈥� e che sia fidanzato con una donna che non gliela d脿 (a sentir lui perch茅 猫 privo di quattrini). I quattrini (il traduttore usa sempre questo sinonimo) amati e odiati come le aspidistre sui davanzali delle finestre borghesi, sono il simbolo del capitalismo che Comstock e Ravelston (il marxista) combattono in modo diverso. La parte del romanzo che mi ha divertito di pi霉 猫 stata quella in cui Gordon ricevuto un anticipo di cinquanta dollari da parte di una rivista letteraria californiana e convertiteli in valuta, li sperpera in una sola nottata come non sarebbe riuscito a fare neppure Pinocchio. Il finale del romanzo ricorda un po鈥� quello scritto da Carlo Collodi, ma ha una sua coerenza. Ora guarder貌 con occhi diversi un鈥檃spidistra se mai mi capiter脿 di vederla come mi capitava spesso quando ero piccolo e non sospettavo che i simboli della borghesia fossero penetrati fin dentro casa mia.
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Dopo aver messo il libro in lettura ho chiesto a cinque persone diverse se sapessero che cosa fosse un鈥檃spidistra e nessuna di esse ha saputo rispondermi. Che parola aspra, pare una professione rettilea. Nemmeno io sapevo di che cosa si trattasse e a fine lettura, quando ne ho cercato l鈥檌mmagine su Google, sono rimasto assai sorpreso
Io questa pianta la conoscevo ma ne ignoravo il nome, ed 猫 vero che quarant鈥檃nni fa era assai diffusa anche qui da noi (*1). George Orwell la identifica come simbolo borghese degli anni 鈥�30 del 900. A proposito di quegli anni scrive
Pensano, ancora! Non importa. Ma a che cosa pensano? Ai quattrini, accidenti, ai quattrini pensano! Affitto, conti arretrati, bolletta della luce e del gas, tasse, rette scolastiche, abbonamento ferroviario, scarpe per i bambini. E alla polizza d鈥檃ssicurazione sulla vita, pensano, e al salario della domestica. E, mio Dio, guai se la moglie dovesse restare incinta un鈥檃ltra volta!
鈥淧ensano al fitto, ai conti, a gas e luce, Alle rate, alle tasse ed al carbone, Allo stipendio della serva pensano, Alle rette scolastiche, alle scarpe.鈥�
A me ha fatto pensare ad un altro monologo famoso scritto cinquant鈥檃nni dopo da un altro scrittore anglofono e probabilmente ispirato da quello Orwelliano
Scegli il mutuo da pagare, la lavatrice, la macchina; scegli di startene seduto su un divano a guardare i giochini alla televisione, a distruggerti il cervello e l鈥檃nima, a riempirti la pancia di porcherie che ti avvelenano. Scegli di marcire in un ospizio, cacandoti e pisciandoti sotto, cazzo, per la gioia di quegli stronzi egoisti e fottuti che hai messo al mondo. Scegli la vita.
Orwell chiama Welsh, Welsh chiama Boyle: rispondi Boyle
Dagli anni trenta del 鈥�900 agli anni venti del nuovo millennio: vivere integrati nella societ脿 che ci ospita ha sempre causato contrasti e nevrosi severe. Orwell racconta di Gordon Comstock, uno scrittore trentenne che ha dichiarato guerra al dio quattrino, che decide di vivere in uno stato di indigenza rinunciando al proprio lavoro di pubblicitario per non sottostare alla spirale che impone di lavorare di pi霉 per guadagnare di pi霉 ed essere allo stesso tempo sfruttati maggiormente. Gordon 猫 amico di Philip Ravelston il direttore della rivista alterativa 鈥淎nticristo鈥�; costui 猫 un personaggio paradigmatico e ricorrente in tutte le forme di protesta sociale: il ricco che si vergogna della propria ricchezza e la usa finanziando la lotta a fianco del povero (altro personaggio paradigmatico) che invidia la diseguaglianza che sta combattendo, che odia il privilegiato ma in segreto adora il privilegio. Gordon viene da una famiglia borghese caduta in disgrazia, lui non ha desideri di rivalsa, si impone invece di rinunciare al superfluo e inizia un percorso di abbruttimento che lo porter脿 a vivere in una stamberga e a lavorare come commesso in una libreria che vende volumetti a prezzo fisso. In questo quadro ha rilevanza il fatto che Gordon si senta uno scrittore alle prese con il capolavoro che lo riveler脿 al mondo intero: 鈥淧iaceri londinesi鈥� e che sia fidanzato con una donna che non gliela d脿 (a sentir lui perch茅 猫 privo di quattrini). I quattrini (il traduttore usa sempre questo sinonimo) amati e odiati come le aspidistre sui davanzali delle finestre borghesi, sono il simbolo del capitalismo che Comstock e Ravelston (il marxista) combattono in modo diverso. La parte del romanzo che mi ha divertito di pi霉 猫 stata quella in cui Gordon ricevuto un anticipo di cinquanta dollari da parte di una rivista letteraria californiana e convertiteli in valuta, li sperpera in una sola nottata come non sarebbe riuscito a fare neppure Pinocchio. Il finale del romanzo ricorda un po鈥� quello scritto da Carlo Collodi, ma ha una sua coerenza. Ora guarder貌 con occhi diversi un鈥檃spidistra se mai mi capiter脿 di vederla come mi capitava spesso quando ero piccolo e non sospettavo che i simboli della borghesia fossero penetrati fin dentro casa mia.
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March 14, 2025
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讴賵鬲丕賴 丕蹖賳讴賴:
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讴賵鬲丕賴 丕蹖賳讴賴:
乇賵丕賳 亘賵丿貙 鬲乇噩賲賴 禺賵亘 亘賵丿貙 趩賳丿鬲丕 噩賲賱賴鈥屰� 禺賵亘 丿丕卮鬲貙 丕蹖丿賴 禺賵亘 賵 倬乇丿丕禺鬲 賳賴 趩賳丿丕賳 禺賵亘 賵 丿乇 讴賱 賲蹖鈥屫堌з� 诏賮鬲 讴賴 蹖讴 賲毓賲賵賱蹖賽 丌亘乇賵賲賳丿 亘賵丿.
February 11, 2012
Girl problems, money problems, houseplant problems. Things are not going Gordon鈥檚 way. Money has become Gordon Comstock鈥檚 all-consuming id茅e fixe (followed closely by aspidistras). Gordon, who comes from 鈥渙ne of those depressing families, so common among the middle-middle classes, in which nothing ever happens,鈥� refuses to be a slave to the 鈥渕oney-god.鈥� He gives up a relatively well paying but soulless job at an advertising agency, a job that furthers the evils of the capitalism that he deplores. He instead deliberately seeks out a position in a bookshop with low pay and no hope of advancement while he struggles at writing his poetry.
At first this decision may appear noble and idealistic, but Gordon rapidly ceases to be a sympathetic character as he mooches money off of his long-suffering and far from wealthy sister and complains nonstop to everyone who will listen about both the evils of money and how difficult it is for him not to have money. As he points out, he isn鈥檛 poor enough to experience actual hardship (unlike many in the 1930s), but is poor enough that everything from socializing with friends to courting his girlfriend to writing poetry to having a cup of tea without having to hide it from the landlady is nearly impossible.
His lack of money, which is at least partially self-inflicted, becomes Gordon鈥檚 excuse for all that he has failed to achieve in his life. His endless whining is so pervasive that you want to shake him. Gordon is hardly the most charming of protagonists, but his tragic fall and relationship with his saintly girlfriend, Rosemary, are still compelling, largely due to Orwell鈥檚 vivid characterizations.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is not nearly as aggressively political as Orwell鈥檚 more famous works. The novel is more concerned with interpersonal relationships, but still addresses the larger issues of capitalism, socialism, and class division in a darkly humorous manner.
At first this decision may appear noble and idealistic, but Gordon rapidly ceases to be a sympathetic character as he mooches money off of his long-suffering and far from wealthy sister and complains nonstop to everyone who will listen about both the evils of money and how difficult it is for him not to have money. As he points out, he isn鈥檛 poor enough to experience actual hardship (unlike many in the 1930s), but is poor enough that everything from socializing with friends to courting his girlfriend to writing poetry to having a cup of tea without having to hide it from the landlady is nearly impossible.
His lack of money, which is at least partially self-inflicted, becomes Gordon鈥檚 excuse for all that he has failed to achieve in his life. His endless whining is so pervasive that you want to shake him. Gordon is hardly the most charming of protagonists, but his tragic fall and relationship with his saintly girlfriend, Rosemary, are still compelling, largely due to Orwell鈥檚 vivid characterizations.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying is not nearly as aggressively political as Orwell鈥檚 more famous works. The novel is more concerned with interpersonal relationships, but still addresses the larger issues of capitalism, socialism, and class division in a darkly humorous manner.
June 26, 2019
Scegliere il proprio sogno e condurre una vita spesso sofferta o sceglier la rassicurante prospettiva di una vita standardizzata, gi脿 tracciata, nella quale la personalit脿 sbiadisce sino a svanire e solo rimane un sentore profondamente impersonale? Un Orwell cantore della libert脿 personale, delle seducenti lusinghe che la vita borghese esterna, di un conflitto che vede ognuno di noi impegnato a comprendere (e scegliere) chi realmente vuol essere. Un libro per chi sogna di scrivere, per chi sogna di poter sognare, per chi, semplicemente, sogna.
July 30, 2022
"The Primrose Quarterly was one of those poisonous literary papers in which the fashionable Nancy Boy and the professional Roman Catholic walk bras dessous, bras dessous. It was also by a long way the most influential literary paper in England. You were a made man once you had a poem in it."
Gordon is a principled poet. We follow him through his coming of age, first employment, first love and gradual downfall. At times, his pride and his war on money become tiresome. Overall though, the descriptive language, quirky well-drawn characters, and the exploration on settling for the financial reward for a 'good job' versus pursuing dreams through the arts, which doesn't pay a living wage are interesting.
I felt very badly for Gordon's long-suffering sister, Julia who works in a dingy bakery and makes sacrifices for Gordon's education and continues to fund him afterwards from her meager savings. She is suppressed, so that he might soar. Sadly, he does not reach great heights, rather he sinks through his own "mad perverseness" before coming to the realization of what he must do to survive.
Gordon observes that his relatives "seemed to want to see every young man in England nailed down in the coffin of a 'good job.'" Gordon wants to "get out of the money world." He has no real plan and cannot answer the question of how he is going to make a living.
"Vaguely he looked forward to some sort of moneyless anchorite existence. He had a feeling that if you genuinely despise money you can keep going somehow like the birds of the air."
However, birds don't need money for rent or food. After seven months of trying to live on his writing alone he learns that "the first effect of poverty is that you lose thought." He has written practically nothing during these desperate months.
Finally, he succumbs to getting a job writing ads for things such as deodorant. He does well for a while, and even earns a raise. However, he wrestles with his conscience as he believes he is "writing lies to tickle the money out of fool's pockets." He decides that he must get out of his current situation and get "some kind of job, not a 'good job' but a job that would keep his body without wholly buying his soul."
Later, after much suffering through life events and tortured thinking, Gordon philosophizes about how others view the 'money-code.' He declares that the way the lower middle class "interpreted it was not merely cynical and hoggish. They had their standards, their inviolable points of honor. They kept themselves respectable, kept the aspidistra [the tree of life] flying."
Gordon comes to the final conclusion that "he is merely repeating the destiny of every human being. Everyone rebels against the money-code and everyone sooner or later surrenders."
Gordon is a principled poet. We follow him through his coming of age, first employment, first love and gradual downfall. At times, his pride and his war on money become tiresome. Overall though, the descriptive language, quirky well-drawn characters, and the exploration on settling for the financial reward for a 'good job' versus pursuing dreams through the arts, which doesn't pay a living wage are interesting.
I felt very badly for Gordon's long-suffering sister, Julia who works in a dingy bakery and makes sacrifices for Gordon's education and continues to fund him afterwards from her meager savings. She is suppressed, so that he might soar. Sadly, he does not reach great heights, rather he sinks through his own "mad perverseness" before coming to the realization of what he must do to survive.
Gordon observes that his relatives "seemed to want to see every young man in England nailed down in the coffin of a 'good job.'" Gordon wants to "get out of the money world." He has no real plan and cannot answer the question of how he is going to make a living.
"Vaguely he looked forward to some sort of moneyless anchorite existence. He had a feeling that if you genuinely despise money you can keep going somehow like the birds of the air."
However, birds don't need money for rent or food. After seven months of trying to live on his writing alone he learns that "the first effect of poverty is that you lose thought." He has written practically nothing during these desperate months.
Finally, he succumbs to getting a job writing ads for things such as deodorant. He does well for a while, and even earns a raise. However, he wrestles with his conscience as he believes he is "writing lies to tickle the money out of fool's pockets." He decides that he must get out of his current situation and get "some kind of job, not a 'good job' but a job that would keep his body without wholly buying his soul."
Later, after much suffering through life events and tortured thinking, Gordon philosophizes about how others view the 'money-code.' He declares that the way the lower middle class "interpreted it was not merely cynical and hoggish. They had their standards, their inviolable points of honor. They kept themselves respectable, kept the aspidistra [the tree of life] flying."
Gordon comes to the final conclusion that "he is merely repeating the destiny of every human being. Everyone rebels against the money-code and everyone sooner or later surrenders."
December 31, 2023
J奴s noteikti esat redz膿ju拧i to 膷ali, kas brauc ar divriteni un gr奴啪 sprunguli spie姆os. 艩is rom膩ns ir par vi艈u. Gordons Komstoks ir 墨sts mizantropijas un pas墨v膩s agresijas korifejs. Vi艈拧 rite艈a spie姆os sp膿j iegr奴st ar墨 visas savas piecas ekstremit膩tes un ar墨 galvu piedev膩m. Ta膷u attaisnojumus vi艈拧 atrast m膩k, vi艈拧 ir profesion膩ls upuris, turkl膩t ar dzejnieka misiju, t膩p膿c vi艈a pretmietpilsonisk膩s tir膩des ir bauda las墨t, jo run膩 vi艈拧 skarbi, rupji un ne啪膿l墨gi, tom膿r sp膿c墨g膩 un, nebaidos teikt, skaist膩 valod膩.
Lai ar墨 dz墨v膿 tik krass notikumu pav膿rsiens k膩 rom膩na beig膩s ir gana iesp膿jams, tom膿r gr膩mat膩s parasti uz to notiek laic墨ga las墨t膩ja gatavin膩拧ana un uzvedin膩拧ana, t膩p膿c 拧is pagrieziens man lik膩s mazliet par strauju un tam notic膿ju ar nelielu piespie拧anos.
Interesants p膿cv膩rds. Izr膩d膩s, ka 拧墨 izdevuma las墨t膩jiem ir laim膿jies, jo tas ir tulkots no izdevuma, kas ir p膿c atjaunots p膿c iesp膿jas tuv膩k s膩kotn膿jam rom膩na variantam, pirmo izdevumu krietni pakorekt膿ja (lasi - pacenz膿ja), turkl膩t ar pras墨bu - lai nemain墨tos rakstu z墨mju skaits. Teksta salikums jau bijis gatavs un neies tak j膩ties v膿lreiz. Orvels, protams, bija milzu saj奴sm膩.
Tiem, kam pat墨k dusm膩s mest gr膩matas pret sienu, 拧墨 b奴s pa拧膩 laik膩.
Lai ar墨 dz墨v膿 tik krass notikumu pav膿rsiens k膩 rom膩na beig膩s ir gana iesp膿jams, tom膿r gr膩mat膩s parasti uz to notiek laic墨ga las墨t膩ja gatavin膩拧ana un uzvedin膩拧ana, t膩p膿c 拧is pagrieziens man lik膩s mazliet par strauju un tam notic膿ju ar nelielu piespie拧anos.
Interesants p膿cv膩rds. Izr膩d膩s, ka 拧墨 izdevuma las墨t膩jiem ir laim膿jies, jo tas ir tulkots no izdevuma, kas ir p膿c atjaunots p膿c iesp膿jas tuv膩k s膩kotn膿jam rom膩na variantam, pirmo izdevumu krietni pakorekt膿ja (lasi - pacenz膿ja), turkl膩t ar pras墨bu - lai nemain墨tos rakstu z墨mju skaits. Teksta salikums jau bijis gatavs un neies tak j膩ties v膿lreiz. Orvels, protams, bija milzu saj奴sm膩.
Tiem, kam pat墨k dusm膩s mest gr膩matas pret sienu, 拧墨 b奴s pa拧膩 laik膩.
January 23, 2022
For the most part I really enjoy George Orwell's writing and it's still quite good here. Although the characters and plot did nothing to keep me invested or enjoy it. The book just wasn't my cup of tea but I'm still hopeful that I'll enjoy most of his other works I got left to read
July 18, 2023
1936 metais , k臋sdamas nuolatin寞 bad膮 ir gyvendamas visi拧kam skurde , per savait臋 gaudamas viso labo 2 svarus , George Orwell sum膮st臈 para拧yt Knyg膮 apie pana拧懦 寞 save meninink膮 , atsisakius寞 pinig懦 , socialinio statuso ir "normalaus gyvenimo". "Lapok , Aspidistra" - tai tikr懦 tikriausia socialin臈 kritika , kuri kaip 寞prasta Orwellui para拧yta itin kand啪iai ir ironi拧kai. "Lapok , Aspidistra." , kaip ir "1984" , nagrin臈jamomis temomis , man pasirod臈 啪ymiai opesn臈 拧iems laikams , negu tada kai buvo para拧yta ( Neb奴t懦 George Orwell) ir lygiai taip pat baksnoja 啪moni懦 nos寞 寞 j懦 pa膷i懦 拧奴d膮 ir atvirai ir nepagra啪indamas parodo kokia apgail臈tina , kvaila ir veidmaini拧ka yra m奴s懦 visuomen臈.
Knygynas kuriame n臈ra vert懦 d臈mesio Knyg懦 , pigios landyn臈s , my啪alais ir pigiu alumi dvokiantys barai , badas , skurdas , poezija ir 啪inoma aspidistra - 拧tai tokia atmosfera vyrauja.
Orwell sugeb臈jo tobulai perteikti tai k膮 jau膷ia nuolatinio bado ir skurdo kamuojamas 啪mogus ir kaip kei膷iasi 啪mogus i拧 i拧or臈s ir vidaus d臈l pinig懦 trukumo ir pertekliaus. Mane labai su啪av臈jo tai , kad romane labai didelis d臈mesys skiriamas pagrindinio veik臈jo psichologiniam portretui. Gordon Comstock , man asmeni拧kai yra geriausias Orwello sukurtas persona啪as.
Taip pat Knygoje pla膷iai nagrin臈jama ar i拧 ties懦 menininkas turi k臋sti bad膮 , skurd膮 ir t.t , kad gal臈t懦 sukurti tikr膮 meno k奴rin寞 , o gal kaip tik prie拧ingai.
"Lapok , Aspidistra" literat奴ri拧kai gal ir silpnesn臈 nei "1984" ir "Gyvuli懦 奴kis" , bet taip pat viena i拧 t懦 Knyg懦 kur tiesiog privalu perskaityt , tad man keista ir li奴dna , kad kai kalbama apie Orwell , apsiribojama "1984" ir "Gyvuli懦 奴kis" , kurias ma膷iau pas did啪i膮j膮 dal寞 bookstagrameri懦 , bet dar neteko pamatyt pas k膮 nors Aspidistros. Tad visiems kurie 啪avisi Orwello k奴ryb膮 - susiraskit j膮 bibliotekoje , nusipirkite arba jeigu gailite pinig懦 Knygoms , atsisi懦skite ir perskaitykit.
鈥濸inig懦 garbinimas yra pakyl臈tas 寞 religijos lyg寞. Galb奴t tai yra vienintel臈 tikra mums likusi religija 鈥� vienintel臈 tikrai i拧jausta religija. Pinigas tap臋s tuo, kuo anks膷iau buvo Dievas. G臈ris ir blogis neteko prasm臈s, j懦 viet膮 u啪臈m臈 s臈km臈 ir nes臈km臈. G臈ris pavirto g臈rybe, tapo turto sinonimu. Dekalogas susitrauk臈 iki dviej懦 寞sakym懦. Vienas darbdaviams 鈥� i拧rinktiesiems, pinig懦 karalyst臈s 啪yniams: 鈥濪aryk pinigus鈥�. Kitas darbuotojams, vergams, ma啪iems 啪mon臈ms:鈥濶eprarask darbo鈥�.鈥�
Knygynas kuriame n臈ra vert懦 d臈mesio Knyg懦 , pigios landyn臈s , my啪alais ir pigiu alumi dvokiantys barai , badas , skurdas , poezija ir 啪inoma aspidistra - 拧tai tokia atmosfera vyrauja.
Orwell sugeb臈jo tobulai perteikti tai k膮 jau膷ia nuolatinio bado ir skurdo kamuojamas 啪mogus ir kaip kei膷iasi 啪mogus i拧 i拧or臈s ir vidaus d臈l pinig懦 trukumo ir pertekliaus. Mane labai su啪av臈jo tai , kad romane labai didelis d臈mesys skiriamas pagrindinio veik臈jo psichologiniam portretui. Gordon Comstock , man asmeni拧kai yra geriausias Orwello sukurtas persona啪as.
Taip pat Knygoje pla膷iai nagrin臈jama ar i拧 ties懦 menininkas turi k臋sti bad膮 , skurd膮 ir t.t , kad gal臈t懦 sukurti tikr膮 meno k奴rin寞 , o gal kaip tik prie拧ingai.
"Lapok , Aspidistra" literat奴ri拧kai gal ir silpnesn臈 nei "1984" ir "Gyvuli懦 奴kis" , bet taip pat viena i拧 t懦 Knyg懦 kur tiesiog privalu perskaityt , tad man keista ir li奴dna , kad kai kalbama apie Orwell , apsiribojama "1984" ir "Gyvuli懦 奴kis" , kurias ma膷iau pas did啪i膮j膮 dal寞 bookstagrameri懦 , bet dar neteko pamatyt pas k膮 nors Aspidistros. Tad visiems kurie 啪avisi Orwello k奴ryb膮 - susiraskit j膮 bibliotekoje , nusipirkite arba jeigu gailite pinig懦 Knygoms , atsisi懦skite ir perskaitykit.
鈥濸inig懦 garbinimas yra pakyl臈tas 寞 religijos lyg寞. Galb奴t tai yra vienintel臈 tikra mums likusi religija 鈥� vienintel臈 tikrai i拧jausta religija. Pinigas tap臋s tuo, kuo anks膷iau buvo Dievas. G臈ris ir blogis neteko prasm臈s, j懦 viet膮 u啪臈m臈 s臈km臈 ir nes臈km臈. G臈ris pavirto g臈rybe, tapo turto sinonimu. Dekalogas susitrauk臈 iki dviej懦 寞sakym懦. Vienas darbdaviams 鈥� i拧rinktiesiems, pinig懦 karalyst臈s 啪yniams: 鈥濪aryk pinigus鈥�. Kitas darbuotojams, vergams, ma啪iems 啪mon臈ms:鈥濶eprarask darbo鈥�.鈥�
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