![]() ![]() Nearly 30 and rather moth-eaten already, a poet whose one. In all, ‘Keep the Aspidistra Flying’ is a nice snapshot of the elements of 1930s London that Orwell despised the most, and well worth a read for any fans of his. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god and Gordon is losing the war. There is also Gordon’s mortifyingly unpleasant love making to Rosemary, parts of which Orwell had to apparently rewrite whilst sat at his publisher’s desk, on account of it being too obscene and too rife for legal action at the time. There are plenty of enjoyable moments to be had in this book – from Gordon’s cringe-inducing refusals to take money from the apologetically well-off Ravelston, to his hapless, drunken liaisons with prostitutes. 323 views 1 year ago Keep the Aspidistra Flying, first published in 1936, is a socially critical novel by George Orwell. He gives up a good job in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving. A persistent theme in the book is his constant obsessing over his poem ‘London Pleasures’ which,rather than add to,he merely chops and changes here and there, never progressing any further an ironic title for a poem which acts a metaphor in some way for Gordon’s life, the constant and drastic changes getting him nowhere fast. Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. ![]() ![]() The only thing Gordon’s slide into poverty seems to achieve is to cripple his creativity and his desire to write poetry. ![]()
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