George Orwell 1903-1933-1950 Tulent is judged in different ways in different times. Hisconteporaries did not think much of George Orwell, because he was , they said fish nor meat. His writings were, not of any value for the right neither for the, Left. Re-evaluaions of his works in magazines like the Illustrated London News','The Listener','Guardian Weekly', 'Sunday Time'.,'Time','Newsweek' have brought him in the limelight recently.The following data are collected from clippings from magazines found at, random, besides fro the only biography available in Djakarta, 'Tom Hopkinson's pamflet on Orwell written for the British Council. The Man Eric Blair,born at Motihari Bengal, in 1903, was the son of a miner official in the Indian Customs who retired on a small pension when his son was a few years old.(1912) Where were also two daughters, one older and one younger than the boy. Richard Blair,who died at the age of 82 at Southwold,Suffolk,was remombered by his son, who disliked him, as a gruff-voiced elderly man forever saying''don't.Ida Blair, his wife,was the only person Eric loved, yet he was too shy to trust her hisreal feelings.This may accout for the loneliness,the cut-off-fro others' feeling that has haunted him his wole life.Eric Blair becameGeorge Orwell in 1933 on publication of his book'Down and out in Paris and London'. He was very classcoscious and with typical precision he classified his family as lower-upper-middle-class_. |