![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Disgusted by society's materialism, he leaves his job in advertising to pursue an ill-fated career as a poet. Good and evil have no meaning any longer except failure and success." Gordon Comstock decides to live in poverty rather than compromise with the 'money god'. Offering a powerful portrayal of the emotional toll of precarity and the desire to break with capitalism, Keep the Aspidistra Flying is asignificant work of mid-century British fiction but it also speaks to our own time. I was amazed at Rosemary’s patience with him and at Ravelston’s steady friendship. ![]() From the beginning to the end, Gordon got on my nerves. It shows that it’s hard to change of social class, to shed one’s education and become someone else. Completed while Orwell travelled north to work on The Road to Wigan Pier, this novel is a key transitional text in his career. Keep the Aspidistra Flying mocks the English class system and its stultifying codes. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Orwell captured his own impatience with the drab comforts of middle-class life and his doubts about the role of the artist in society. In Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Gordon Comstock, thirty-ish, a poet with a slim volume to his credit entitled Mice (good press, bad sales, soon remaindered), chooses the life of poverty and failure in preference to a career in copywriting (for which, unfortunately, he has more talent than for poetry). ![]()
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