Burmese Days, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Coming Up for Air

George Orwell was a novelist unlike any other, fiercely devoted to presenting the truth as he saw it. Keep the Aspidistra Flying is a sort of comedy in which minor poet Gordon Comstock engages briefly with romantic dreams before realizing that salvation is to be found, not in escape from his life but engagement with it.

George Orwell a fost un romancier ca oricare altul, devotat cu inversunare prezentarii adevarului asa cum il vedea el. Keep the Aspidistra Flying este un fel de comedie in care poetul minor Gordon Comstock se implica pentru scurt timp cu vise romantice inainte de a realiza ca mantuirea trebuie gasita, nu in evadarea din viata lui, ci in angajarea cu ea.