Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a significant work of mid-century British fiction but it also speaks to our own time.ĪBOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Offering a powerful portrayal of the emotional toll of precarity and the desire to break with capitalism, Completed while Orwell travelled north to work on The Road to Wigan Pier, this novel is a key transitional text in his career. Pressures of the literary marketplace and with social expectations. The novel contains the most sustained reflections on the role of the author and the artistic imagination anywhere in Orwell's fiction, as the book's protagonist struggles (and ultimately fails) to reconcile his romantic-aestheticist sensibilities with the In his race to the bottom, only Rosemary, his long-suffering girlfriend, challenges Gordon's self-destructive course. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success."ĭisgusted by society's materialism, Gordon Comstock leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet.
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