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A review by doobyus
Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
4.0
Orwell is magnificent. This book is uncomfortable in the way it touches ones own hidden prejudices, fears, and dreams, and maybe shows them for the tissues they are. He is almost Dostoyevskian in his ability to enter your mind and upset the balance.
Gordon Comstock is clearly something of a fool, but it's a foolishness i share in part, and that may be why it's uncomfortable in parts. There's humour within the bleakness, and Comstock's friends serve to show he has redeeming qualities which are otherwise obscured by his uncomoromising naïvety.
The ending is a little too tidy, and i wonder if there was external pressure exerted in order to close the book with a glimmer of hope?
Thoroughly recommended. Again!
Gordon Comstock is clearly something of a fool, but it's a foolishness i share in part, and that may be why it's uncomfortable in parts. There's humour within the bleakness, and Comstock's friends serve to show he has redeeming qualities which are otherwise obscured by his uncomoromising naïvety.
The ending is a little too tidy, and i wonder if there was external pressure exerted in order to close the book with a glimmer of hope?
Thoroughly recommended. Again!