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Orwell and Bohemia. (George Orwell; Bohemian Paris)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19940401
Author:Heptonstall, Geoffrey

Famous author George Orwell's attitude to bohemia is examined. The writer has stayed for short periods in bohemian Paris, Berlin and Zurich. His denial of bohemia is regarded as a marshalling of his resources and an act toward self-discipline. However, this rejection has earned him enemies among poseurs, charlatans and bon viveurs who were ready to dismiss him as a quack socialist and a grub street hack writer.

IN Cyril Connolly, George Orwell had a lifelong friend -- from early days at school until forty years on when Orwell died in 1950 in the week that the last edition of Connolly's ...

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