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John Rodden. Scenes from an Afterlife: the Legacy of George Orwell.(Book Review)
From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20040101
Author:Strub, Harry
John Rodden. Scenes from an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell.
Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003. xviii + 305 pp. $25.00.
THE NATURE OF HUMAN CULTURE is such that what people express can affect eternity. To paraphrase Henry Adams, one can never tell where a writer's (or a teacher's or an artist's) influence ends. But for only a few is their posthumous relevance so broad and so current that their major ideas and creations continue to appear necessary to understand one's own universe. Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are perhaps prototypes of cultural icons with a ...
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