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Lionel Trilling memorialized him as "a virtuous man." To Arthur Koestler his life was "a rebel's progress." Irving Howe called him "my intellectual hero"; and V.S. Pritchett eulogized him as a "saint" and the "conscience of his generation." Since his death in 1950, George Orwell has served as a personal and intellectual model for countless writers across the political spectrum, ranging from the New Left to the New York intellectuals to the National Review conservatives. His last two books, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four , have sold forty million copies in sixty-five languages, more than any other pair of books by a single author in history. How did this enormous reputation develop? And what can Orwell's reputation tell us about reputation-building in general? As the first systematic exploration of reputation as a literary and sociological issue, The Politics of Literary Reputation addresses these questions. In the process of telling the story of how Orwell's reputation was made and maintained, John Rodden breaks new ground on a host of topics connected with the phenomenon of fame (literary heroism, intellectual role-modeling, political grave-robbing, literary canon-formation)

Author

John Rodden

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195067118

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24