Books that mention Politics and the English Language (3)
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion: “'A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details,' Orwell had written in 'Politics and the English Language' in 1946.”
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace: “held marathon multireadings of e.g. Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language,' and whose Avril-chaired Tactical Phalanx (MGM's) was then (unsuccessfully, it turned out) court-fighting the new Gentle administration's Title-II/G-public-funded-library-phaseout...”
Our Gang by Philip Roth: Epigraph: "—George Orwell, 'Politics and the English Language,' 1946" followed by the quoted passage on political language and lies.