George Orwell’s son follows father’s steps in Barcelona

<p><strong>Richard Blair</strong>, son of world-famous anti-totalitarian writer <strong>George Orwell</strong> (whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair), visited the site of the clinic where his father had been treated during the Spanish Civil War.</p> <p>Orwell, an “old-fashioned socialist,” traveled to Barcelona as a journalist in December of 1936 to find out more about the Civil War, which he felt was being misrepresented by the foreign press. He then enlisted in the war as a <strong>Republican volunteer for POUM</strong>, a Trotskyist faction.</p> / ACN

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First published: May 19, 2019 02:23 PM