>/lit/ suddenly hates Orwell What happened?

I believe that's a false assertion

The contrarian pendulum swings to the other side.

>>8327697
Most of /lit/ is Armenian.

>>8327697
I don't hate Orwell. His stories will be relevant for years to come.

>>8327697
No serious person "hates" Orwell.

It's possible to criticise him, however a pleb on 4chan trying to dismiss him is a little like kicking footballs at a freight train.

The man's most well-known work alone has shaped more of modern language, discourse and thought than some entire nations.

And if you've never read his essays, you cannot consider yourself educated on 20th century history.

>>8327722
>his last name doesn't end in -ian

>>8327737
>if you don't agree with me you're really bad
typical Orwellian
Orwell can't write and can't think, he's totally obsolete, just a favorite of reddit and similar pseuds because of how accessible his shit is

>suddenly
rofl. 1984 has always been extremely overrated.

>>8327697
who the fuck wants to read heavy-handed anti-soviet propoganda in a post-soviet world.

he's not worth discussing. you can find everything you need to know about him on sparknotes.

>>8327759
You are clueless. Here's Orwell's story "Shooting an Elephant" from 1936. It explains the modern predicament of the "regressive left" better than anything I've ever read.

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/

Orwell is far from "obsolete."

>>8327744
George Orwellian

>>8327744
"Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian"

>George Snorewell

>>8327697
the hivermind changes his mind

>Not Borewell
Do you even comprehend agency?

>>8327779
>>8327759
also The Prevention of Literature

>>8327722
Why would Armenians hate Orwell?

>>8327779
>It explains the modern predicament of the "regressive left"
The purpose of literature isn't to be satire to political movements you don't like
>better than anything I've ever read.
Read more

>>8327899
10/10 actually made me mad

f*ckin sheeple . . .

Reading Homage to Catalonia, it started out interesting but the last 100 pages are boring shit about Spanish leftist factionalism.

Seriously, not one reply about how he fabricated an entire journalistic book, plagiarized for his fiction, and sold out socialists to the British Crown despite claiming to be a socialist himself? I was disappointed to learn these things but theyre pretty hard to excuse

>>8328179
>muh death of the author

>>8327759
If anything the best reason to read Orwell is how clearly he communicates his thoughts (I.e. good writing)

The world is turning to shit again.

>>8327697
A somewhat decent author ruined by the insufferable fan-base of pretentious ''dissident'' kids.

Nothing new.

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>>8327697

He's a godsend for me.

Nothing like citing/quoting him against superficially left-wing university students. He's like a counter-appeal-to-authority.

Who readily contradicts/disputes Orwell? Not a lot of people, in my experience. His name is a buzzword, it commands surprising respect.

There was a time when /lit/ didn't hare Orwell?

1984 blows

>>8328161
>taught my girlfriend english

i thought mail order brides were illegal

>>8328364
>i thought mail order brides were illegal
What gave you that impression. Louie Theroux did a pretty good documentary on them a few years back. Not the guy you quoted by the way

He had horrible taste in tea like all British people do and that is inexcusable.

>>8328179
Maybe with his novels, but journalistic memoir? Yeah its hard to justify that being entirely fabricated. He was a political author and respected for his travels and worldview, so the truth of those things certainly mattered.

>>8328172
>he fabricated an entire journalistic book

Which one?

>plagiarized for his fiction

Source?

>and sold out socialists to the British Crown

He gave a list of communists to an organization whose job was to make anti-communist propaganda.

>>8328136
I enjoyed it a lot though, even the leftist factionalism part

>>8328353

Nigga, you're supposed to read his essays and other works that are not animal farm and 1984. My catalonia exposes the communists working with the royalty to crush socialist workers uprisings in spain.

A hanging is a nice piece on how "duty" destroys the humanity of everyone following orders instead of their conscience.