Orwell and Beckett just not interested in success
Orwell never seems to have taken the least
interest in success, in contrast to those contemporary literary pundits who
pride themselves on being plain-speaking, loose-cannon dissenters while
cultivating all the right social contacts. Failure was Orwell’s forte, a
leitmotif of his fiction. For him, it was what was real, as it was for Beckett.
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