LITERARY BACK TO SCHOOL – “The Invisible Mrs. Orwell” by Anna Funder was published in September 2024 by Heloïse d’Ormesson
Bruno_30, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends “The Invisible Mrs. Orwell” by Anna Funder, published on September 5, 2024 by Éditions Heloïse d’Ormesson.
His favorite quote:
In 2005, six letters from George Orwell’s first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, to her best friend, Norah Symes Myles, were discovered, dating from the period of her marriage to Orwell, between 1936 and 1945. Six letters from Eileen […] discovered in 2005 among his nephew’s belongings, after the biographies had all been written. »
Why this book?
Because George Orwell is “one of the most widely read men and the most influential of his century” (according to one of his biographers, Jeffrey Meyers). This 20th century that shaped our world today. The curious reader can therefore only be delighted to approach this legendary writer once again, especially when he is offered to enter his home on the arm of his wife, a rather original way of approaching him.Because this curious reader will quickly be surprised by the angle of attack chosen by Anna Funder: because it is indeed a real full-scale attack, without concession, effective, which will seek (and succeed!) in demonstrating the terrible erasure of the personality of Eileen O’Shaughnessy – an intellectual, liberated, emancipated woman – in the shadows(…) - 20minutes
