This author wrote about a vulgar genre of art that gives expression to the "Sancho Panza view of life" whose "whole meaning"lies in its "unredeemed lowness" and in another work described his home country as "a family with the wrong membersin control".
This author wrote about a vulgar genre of art that gives expression to the "Sancho Panza view of life" whose "whole meaning"lies in its "unredeemed lowness" and in another work described his home country as "a family with the wrong membersin control". This author criticized a famous poet for the phrase "necessary murder" which he argues could "only be writtenby a person to whom murder is at most a word." This author wrote about dirty comics in "The Art of Donald McGill" anddescribed his horrifying education at the prep school Crossgates in "Such, Such Were the Joys." He borrowed a metaphor froman essay on Anais Nin to describe a certain writer as a willing Jonah. This author defended Henry Miller in his essay "Insidethe Whale" and satirically translated a passage from Ecclesiastes into modern English in an essay that argues political writinghas become "the defense of the indefensible." For 10 points, name this British author who wrote the essays "Politics and theEnglish Language" and "Shooting an Elephant".
This author wrote about a vulgar genre of art that gives expression to the "Sancho Panza view of life" whose "whole meaning"lies in its "unredeemed lowness" and in another work described his home country as "a family with the wrong membersin control".
George Orwell