Light on Orwell
An unsigned Listener piece summarizing a BBC Omnibus program on George Orwell, in which Mailer analyzes Orwell's narrative power in 1984 and praises his prophetic vision.
“Light on Orwell,” an article by an unidentified writer in the Listener (4 February 1971), summarizes a BBC 1 “Omnibus” program, “The Road to the Left,” a portrait of George Orwell. In some 413 words Mailer analyzes Orwell’s narrative power in 1984 and praises his “profoundly prophetic” vision of a future filled with “dull, awful, obscene, miserable, picayune little wars … that would … kill the world slowly.”