Book review: Stop and smell George Orwell's roses of resistance

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American writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit takes a rose and cultivates it in many ways, from which blossom unexpected meditations on climate change, colonialism, the exploitation of labour

and beauty as a source of resistance.

Its writing style hews to what is arguably the book's central thesis: that a horizontal, associative way of thinking is not only more productive than people might believe, but also necessary to living and productivity. Another on Orwell's decision to not write under his birth name, Eric Blair, in a bid to distance himself from his slave-owning ancestors, discusses how the apparent beauty of roses can sometimes hide ugliness.

But the most impressive chapters are the ones that deal with what it means to be productive in today's world. Though Solnit does not neglect Orwell's major works, she focuses more on his domestic diary entries, which are sometimes no more than inventories of flowers he finds interesting.

 

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