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George Orwell: English Language
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In December 1936, Orwell went to Spain as a fighter for the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War that was provoked by Francisco Franco's Fascist uprising. In conversation with Philip Mairet, editor of New English Weekly, Orwell said: 'This fascism . . . somebody's got to stop it'. [7] To Orwell, liberty and democracy went together, guaranteeing, among other things, the freedom of the artist; the present capitalist civilization was corrupt, but fascism would be morally calamitous.
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Orwell was compelled to confront the idea of obscenity and indecency long before he had any concept of love or sex, let alone of the relation between the two. Many young Englishmen, damaged in precisely that way, went off to the colonies and made themselves a nuisance to the "native" women. Orwell never gave a reason for his sudden resignation from the Burma police, in which he served for five years in the 1920s, but I am morally certain that it was this latent element, as well as a more generalised revulsion against imperialism, that caused him to make up his mind. The system of exploitation in Burma depended, in its social aspect, on a double indecency.
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Orwell's was an Englishness far removed from what was called by his contemporary, the Christian socialist Richard Tawney, 'the acquisitive society' (today's 'consumer society'). In other words he was one of the 'awkward squad', an Etonian who despised the establishment; he might have been happier in Cromwell's New Model Army of 1646 than he was in the Home Guard of 1941.
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Orwell's reputation grew substantially after his death, and even such once-ignored works as Keep the Aspidistra Flying appeared in translation. At the time of its original publication little interest had been shown in Orwell's writing. The tide turned rapidly after 1950. The French publisher Gallimard, noted for its publication of modern literature, published over the years various works by Orwell. During his lifetime he had worked closely with Yvonne Davet on this and other translations of his work. from English into French."
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Orwell had little sympathy with Zionism and opposed the creation of the state of Israel. In 1945, Orwell wrote that "few English people realise that the Palestine issue is partly a colour issue and that an Indian nationalist, for example, would probably side with the Arabs".
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Orwell narrowly missed meeting Albert Camus when the Frenchman had to pull out of a rendezvous at the Deux Magots café due to illness. The two authors admired one another's work, and that was not all they had in common. Like Orwell, Camus was tubercular and... like the Englishman, he would die (albeit in a car crash) at 46.
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