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2 unusual facts about Homage to Catalonia


Lionel Trilling

He wrote the introduction to The Selected Letters of John Keats (1951), in which he defended Keats’s notion of negative capability, as well as the introduction, “George Orwell and the Politics of Truth," to the 1952 reissue of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia.

Victor Gollancz Ltd

His break with Orwell came when he declined to publish Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War Homage to Catalonia, the pair having drifted apart on political grounds.


Alan Lyddiard

In 2001 he made a version of 1984 (which has inspired subsequent productions of Lyddiard's adaptation in Paris, Freiburg, New York and New Zealand) and in 2003 he co-produced with Calixto Bieito a version of Orwell's memoir Homage to Catalonia.


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