The writing is great and the whole Russian allegory thing is done to great effect, but what exactly makes this book a modern classic? Isn't it way too specific and bleak?
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>>8982651
It's easy to understand while being vague enough to make the reader feel like he accomplished something by understanding it. Also, some people revere anything written by Orwell as if it's some biblical prophecy. That's why.
if you think this is bleak, you should read 1984, if your teacher hasn't already made you.
then read Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago" and "Cancer Ward" to cheer yourself up again.
Put into simple terms how earnest the russians tried to make utopia and udderly failed
moo
>>8984504
>le soviet failed meme
dats sum delish propaganda u got there, my man
>seminal
are you gay? Lol.
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