Keep the Aspidistra Flying

"Money is what God used to be. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success."
Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet.

Autorentext

Benjamin Kohlmann teaches English literature at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is the author of Committed Styles: Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s (2014) and Speculative States: Literature and Reform in Britain, 1870-1920 (forthcoming). His articles have been published in PMLA, ELH, Novel, and other journals. He has co-edited several essay collections, including A History of 1930s British Literature (2019), with Matthew Taunton.

Inhalt

• Introduction

• Notes on the Text

• Select Bibliography

• A Chronology of George Orwell

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying

• Explanatory Notes