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Superversive

19 October 2003 by Tom Simon 8 Comments

The failure of subversion in imaginative literature

‘Do you believe in God, Winston?’

‘No.’

‘Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?’

‘I don’t know. The spirit of Man.’

Filed Under: Essays Tagged With: charles dickens, criticism, fantasy, george bernard shaw, george orwell, horace smith, j. r. r. tolkien, james joyce, john grant, mary catelli, oscar wilde, ozymandias, percy bysshe shelley, ursula k. le guin