San Antonio College Library

A convincing argument, which deserved more care in writing and less drabness in publishing. Here Orwell appears as an existential, sociopolitical writer whose novels share the same theme: a prevailing orthodoxy's power (e.g., in Burmese Days, imperialism) can demand of the private authentic individual that he generate a public, inauthentic self. The themes of Orwell's fiction closely parallel the existential thinking of Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger,...