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English postwar fiction maybe not so good. What do we now read from the 40s or 50s? Hard to think of anything. Kingsley Amis? Late Evelyn Waugh?
by dash2 6y ago
English postwar fiction maybe not so good. What do we now read from the 40s or 50s? Hard to think of anything. Kingsley Amis? Late Evelyn Waugh?
- pnin 6y agoHenry Green, Graham Greene, Julian Maclaren-Ross, Anthony Powell. But the review is from just a week after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, so Orwell is referring to wartime fiction rather than postwar fiction.
- dash2 6y agoI've heard of Greene and Powell. That might be just me, of course....
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