The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm

The Never End: The Other Orwell, the Cold War, the CIA, MI6, and the Origin of Animal Farm – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9789819907649,9819907640

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• ISBN 10: 9819907640
• ISBN 13: 9789819907649
• Author: John Reed

This book presents full history of the origin of Orwell’s Animal Farm, as well as a translation of the Russuian/Ukranian source work. Has George Orwell lost his saintly luster? In The Never End, rabble-rouser, dogged investigator, and consummate literary stylist John Reed collects two decades of subject-Orwell findings previously published in Pank, Guernica, Literary Hub, The Brooklyn Rail, The Rumpus,The New York Press, The Believer, Harper’s Magazine and The Paris Review. Reed’s treatment of Orwell is corrective and peerlessly contemporary; he views Orwell in a twenty-first century global context, considering Orwell’s collaboration with Cold War intelligence operations—US and UK—with unfaltering objectivity. It’s hard to imagine that Orwell—in our own moment of global doublethink—wouldn’t have wanted his devotion to contrariety applied to the literary legacy he left behind. The Never End is atonce a hatchet job and a celebration. Animal Farm, based on a previously unknown Russian short story? Animal Farm, deployed by the CIA, MI6 and the Congress for Cultural Freedom? Orwell, turning over blacklists in a McCarthy-esque act of betrayal? The Cold War? Does it last forever? Russia, the “Axis of Evil,” and now China? But. Orwell. Course syllabi. Literary laurels. Snitch. Why do we keep coming back? For the wrong reasons? Or because we know Old Benjamin would want us to know the truth?

Table of contents:

1. 2013: Animal Farm Timeline
2. 2013: George Orwell’s “Freedom of the Press,” a Proposed Preface to Animal Farm, Expurgated and Footnoted (with a Bias)
3. 2015: Revisionist History: The Origin of Animal Farm (Was a Little-Known Story, “Animal Riot,” by Russian/Ukrainian Scholar Nikolai Kostomarov)
4. 2003: Saint George and the Damn Truth
5. 2003: The Anti-Matter of George Orwell
6. 2003: A Modest Disposal: Jail All Living Artists. Elvis Stays
7. 2011: The Politics of Narrative
8. 2016: Pigs, Goats, Tea Parties, Walking Magnets and Scotch Central: John Reed with Bretty Rawson
9. 2016: Life in Interesting Times/What Orwell Can (and Can’t) Teach Us: Jordan Rothacker in Conversation with John Reed on Fascism and the Neo-Liberal Oligarchy
10. 1879, 1917, 2015: “Animal Riot: Letter from a Little Russian Landowner to His Friend in St. Petersburg”
11. 2022: The War of Passive Aggression: Orwell’s (Yes, “Orwellian”) Forever Cold War, and Now China

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