A Point of View - Why Orwell Is the Supreme Mediocrity
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Will Self takes on one of the nation's best loved figures, George Orwell.....and braces himself for the backlash! "Not Orwell, surely!" he hears the listeners cry.
He uses Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" to make his point. This - he says - is often seen as "a principled assault upon all the jargon, obfuscation, and pretentiously Frenchified folderol that deforms our noble tongue". That - in Self's view - couldn't be farther from the truth.
Describing Orwell as a "Supreme Mediocrity", Self gets to work.....
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
Published on Friday, 29th August 2014.
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