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| Abstract: | "A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's new book, which presents another side of Orwell, a neglected arcadian Orwell who took enormous pleasure in the natural world and found great meaning and value in it. Orwell's planting of the roses is an axle from which Solnit's chapters radiate out like spokes as she brilliantly explores its various contexts, perspectives, and meanings, following the contours of Orwell's life and tracking how deeply enmeshed the love of nature is in all his writing. Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where Orwell lived in 1936, she examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith. Probing at the beauty and meaning of roses, she draws in the revolutionary photography and politics of Tina Modotti and makes a clandestine visit to a Columbian rose factory, where 80% of America's roses for sale are grown. She tracks the history of gardening, showing how the desire to garden is culturally determined and often rooted in class, recounts the immense battles over breeding and genetics in Russia during Stalin's time, and probes into the colonialist roots of Orwell's forebears, who worked in opium production in India and profiteered from sugar and slavery in Jamaica. Solnit shows how these points of intersection illuminate Orwell's work, and how that illumination shines forth on larger questions about beauty, pleasure, meaning, relationship, and hope. Her book establishes that "Orwellian" could stand for something more than ominous, corrupt, and sinister"-- |
| Item Description: | Contents: I The Prophet and the Hedgehog: One Day of the Dead 3- Two Flower Power 15- Three Lilacs and Nazis 21- - II Going Underground: One Smoke, Shale, Ice, Mud, Ashes 51- Two Carboniferous 57- Three In Darkness 63- - III Bread and Roses: One Roses and revolution 77- Two We Fight for Roses Too 85- Three In Prais Of 91- Four Buttered Toast 101- Five The Las Rose of Yesterday 109- - IV Stalin's Lemons: One The Flint Path 121- Two Empire of Lies 131- Three Forcing Lemons 143- - V Retreats and Attack: One Enclosures 149- Two gentility 157- Three Sugar, Poppies, Teak 165- Four Old Blush 171- Five Flowers of Evil 179- - VI The Price of Roses: One Beauty Problems 187- Two In the Rose Factory 195- Three The Crystal Spirit 205- Four The Ugliness of Roses 213- Five snow and Ink 221- - VII The River Orwell: One An Inventory of Pleasures 235- Two "As the Rose-Hip to the Rose" 251- Three The River Orwell 265- - Gratitude 269- Notes 273- Image Credits 295- Index 297- |
| Physical Description: | 308 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780593083369 |
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| 520 | 3 | |a Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where Orwell lived in 1936, she examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith. Probing at the beauty and meaning of roses, she draws in the revolutionary photography and politics of Tina Modotti and makes a clandestine visit to a Columbian rose factory, where 80% of America's roses for sale are grown. She tracks the history of gardening, showing how the desire to garden is culturally determined and often rooted in class, recounts the immense battles over breeding and genetics in Russia during Stalin's time, and probes into the colonialist roots of Orwell's forebears, who worked in opium production in India and profiteered from sugar and slavery in Jamaica. Solnit shows how these points of intersection illuminate Orwell's work, and how that illumination shines forth on larger questions about beauty, pleasure, meaning, relationship, and hope. | |
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CONTENTS i The Prophet and the Hedgehog ONE 3 Day of the Dead TWO Flower Power 15 THREE Lilacs and Nazis 21 II Going Underground ONE Smoke, Shale, Ice, Mud, Ashes 51 TWO 57 Carboniferous THREE In Darkness 63 III Bread and Roses ONE Roses and Revolution 77 TWO We Fight for Roses Too 85
THREE 91 In Praise Of FOUR 101 Buttered Toast FIVE The Last Rose of Yesterday 109 IV Stalin’s Lemons ONE 121 The Flint Path TWO Empire of Lies 131 THREE Forcing Lemons 143 V Retreats and Attacks ONE Enclosures 149 TWO Gentility 157 THREE Sugar, Poppies, Teak 165 FOUR Old Blush 171 FIVE Flowers of Evil 179
VI The Price of Roses ONE Beauty Problems 187 TWO In the Rose Factory 195 THREE The Crystal Spirit 205 FOUR 213 The Ugliness of Roses FIVE Snow and Ink 221 VII The River Orwell ONE An Inventory of Pleasures 235 two “As the Rose-Hip to the Rose” 251 THREE The River Orwell 265 GRATITUDE 269 NOTES 273 IMAGE CREDITS 295 INDEX 297
"In the spring of 1936, a writer planted roses." So be gins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and on the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the roses he reportedly planted in 1936, Solnit's account of this overlooked aspect of Orwell's life journeys through his writing and his actions—from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left) to his analy sis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit's celebrated ability to draw unex pected connections, readers are drawn onward from Orwell's own work as a writer and gardener to encoun ter photographer Tina Modotti's roses and her politics, agriculture and illusion in the USSR of his time with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell's slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid's examination of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty- Four that completes Solnit's portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as offering a meditation on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance. |
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| spelling | Solnit, Rebecca 1961- Verfasser (DE-588)130380601 aut Orwell's roses Rebecca Solnit [New York, New York] Viking [2021] 308 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Contents: I The Prophet and the Hedgehog: One Day of the Dead 3- Two Flower Power 15- Three Lilacs and Nazis 21- - II Going Underground: One Smoke, Shale, Ice, Mud, Ashes 51- Two Carboniferous 57- Three In Darkness 63- - III Bread and Roses: One Roses and revolution 77- Two We Fight for Roses Too 85- Three In Prais Of 91- Four Buttered Toast 101- Five The Las Rose of Yesterday 109- - IV Stalin's Lemons: One The Flint Path 121- Two Empire of Lies 131- Three Forcing Lemons 143- - V Retreats and Attack: One Enclosures 149- Two gentility 157- Three Sugar, Poppies, Teak 165- Four Old Blush 171- Five Flowers of Evil 179- - VI The Price of Roses: One Beauty Problems 187- Two In the Rose Factory 195- Three The Crystal Spirit 205- Four The Ugliness of Roses 213- Five snow and Ink 221- - VII The River Orwell: One An Inventory of Pleasures 235- Two "As the Rose-Hip to the Rose" 251- Three The River Orwell 265- - Gratitude 269- Notes 273- Image Credits 295- Index 297- "A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's new book, which presents another side of Orwell, a neglected arcadian Orwell who took enormous pleasure in the natural world and found great meaning and value in it. Orwell's planting of the roses is an axle from which Solnit's chapters radiate out like spokes as she brilliantly explores its various contexts, perspectives, and meanings, following the contours of Orwell's life and tracking how deeply enmeshed the love of nature is in all his writing. Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where Orwell lived in 1936, she examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith. Probing at the beauty and meaning of roses, she draws in the revolutionary photography and politics of Tina Modotti and makes a clandestine visit to a Columbian rose factory, where 80% of America's roses for sale are grown. She tracks the history of gardening, showing how the desire to garden is culturally determined and often rooted in class, recounts the immense battles over breeding and genetics in Russia during Stalin's time, and probes into the colonialist roots of Orwell's forebears, who worked in opium production in India and profiteered from sugar and slavery in Jamaica. Solnit shows how these points of intersection illuminate Orwell's work, and how that illumination shines forth on larger questions about beauty, pleasure, meaning, relationship, and hope. Her book establishes that "Orwellian" could stand for something more than ominous, corrupt, and sinister"-- Orwell, George 1903-1950 (DE-588)118590359 gnd rswk-swf Gartenarbeit (DE-588)4443908-8 gnd rswk-swf Orwell, George / 1903-1950 Authors, English / 20th century / Biography Orwell, George / 1903-1950 / Homes and haunts Orwell, George / 1903-1950 / Knowledge and learning Roses Gardening Nature BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures NATURE / General LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature Authors, English Homes 1900-1999 Biography Biographies Orwell, George 1903-1950 (DE-588)118590359 p Gartenarbeit (DE-588)4443908-8 s DE-604 Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe 978-0-5930-8338-3 Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032989184&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Inhaltsverzeichnis Digitalisierung UB Passau - ADAM Catalogue Enrichment application/pdf http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032989184&sequence=000003&line_number=0002&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA Klappentext |
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