In the eyes of the general public, George Orwell remains the author of
Animal Farm
(1945), a fierce satire of the Soviet world, and especially of
1984
(1949), his great prophetic novel.
But if his last two masterpieces have ensured his cult, the British writer has also distinguished himself by his political essays, less popular, but just as important.
It was the latter that earned him the admiration of Simon Leys or Jean-Claude Michéa, and made him the writer of "ordinary people" as well as one of the first anti-totalitarian thinkers.
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His first major essay,
Le Quai de Wigan
, published in 1937, has just been reissued by Éditions Climats with a fascinating preface by Jean-Laurent Cassely.
In many ways
, Le Quai de Wigan
is perhaps more current and more destabilizing than the works of Orwell that have gone down in posterity, including the evocation at all times and about any subject, of the excesses of political correctness when the vaccination pass was introduced, ended up…
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