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Alberto Lazaro, ed. The Road from George Orwell: His Achievement and Legacy.(Book Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20020322
Author:Cotton, William T.

Bern; Peter Lang, 2001. 250 pp. $39.95.

MOST OF US professionally judge other people's writing, either as publishers' consultants, readers or book reviewers for journals, or graders of student papers. But what must it be like to function as a government censor, determining whether someone's writing will ever see publication? "Orwell's Catalonia Revisited: A Politically Incorrect Story," the entry by the editor Alberto Lazaro in his own collection, gives a sense of that in its review of the struggle to get Homage to Catalonia published in Spanish and Catalan translations ...

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