Foreword "Why I Write"

[Dave Monroe]

"In an essay from the summer of 1946, 'Why I Write,'
he recalled, 'Animal Farm was the first book in which
I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing,
to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into
one whole. I have not written a novel for seven years,
but I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound
to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do
know with some clarity what kind of book I want to
write.'  Shortly after this, he was at work on 1984."
("Forword," p. xiii)

George Orwell, "Why I Write" (1947)

http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/write.htm

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/e/e_wiw.htm

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/whywrite.html

http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/whyiwrite.html

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> 1984 is not a crude propaganda novel. Animal Farm
> is not a crude propaganda novel. Both are fictions.
> If we don't deal with them as fictions first
> (acknowledging all along that Orwell claimed that
> his aim was "to make political writing into art")

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