Pynchon & Orwell

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George Orwell - A Political Assessment
JOHN J. BONSIGNORE
Department of Legal Studies,
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
"What stands between the individual and the onset of a
totalitarian state to end all totalitarian states? For Orwell the
answer is the liberal state which for all its fascistic warts at least
maintains some protection of free speech, individual freedom and
privacy. His vision took him straight back to political quietism and
support of English political and legal order. Liberalism was the
least among evils in a world that looked more and more evil. Like
the professional gambler holed up in a small town, he had to set
his sights lower and play for smaller political stakes than
revolution."
http://www.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/bonsignore8.htm

For the German p-listers:
George Orwell: Von Pearl Harbor bis Stalingrad. Die Kommentare zum Krieg,
edited by W.J. West, translated by Pynchon and Gaddis-translator Nikolaus
Stingl, Wien, Zürich, Europaverlag 1993, is currently available at
Wohlthat's Bookshop for 4,95 DM only.
(Orwell, The War Commentaries, London 1985)

I've just bought it today with Gaddis' "JR" (lucky Saturday evening, no
work, and first soccer, then reading)

Otto