Foreowrd "The Habit of Point-for-Point Analogy"

[Tim Strzechowski]

Just as, for better or worse, other authors whose later works tend to be
judged against that one earlier "masterpiece."

Sad for the author, really ...


>    "In a way, this novel has been a victim of the
> success of Animal Farm, which most people were content
> to read as a straightforward allegory about the
> melancholy fate of the Russian revolution.  From the
> minute Big Brother's mustache makes its appearance in
> the second paragraph of 1984, many readers, thinking
> right away of Stalin, have tended to carry over the
> habit of point-for-point analogy from the earlier
> work.  [ ... ]