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FeaturesSeptember 2001 Rewriting George Orwell A consideration of a new and bowdlerized edition of Homage to Catalonia. Recent scholarly and literary discussion of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939—mainly occasioned by the publication of Spain Betrayed—has inadvertently shed light on a previously neglected scandal in English letters. This is the wholesale misappropriation and even mutilation of George Orwell’s works by a British pedant, Peter Davison. The link between Orwell and Spain is an obvious one: the great English political critic was transformed by his experience in the Spanish war as a volunteer in the militia of an anti-Stalinist radical movement, the Partit Obrer d’Unificació Marxista (POUM). This small element of the Catalan left, whose name means “Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification,” fought against the counter-revolutionary forces of General Francisco Franco on a key section of the Aragon front in the northeast of the peninsula. This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 20 September 2001, on page 63 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Rewriting-George-Orwell-2138
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