{"product_id":"157061","title":"Behind George Orwell ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/WQt5m5WWQzrhXqoYAWPA4h.png?v=1764856525\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Behind George Orwell \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe woman who completed Orwell and was deleted,\u003cbr\u003e I hear her voice for the first time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ★The New York Times, The Economist, The Guardian, The Times Book of the Year 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Before George Orwell's 1984, there was a woman who wrote a dystopian poem called \"1984, Fin De Sie d'Este.\" \u003cbr\u003eShe was also the one who planned and co-edited Animal Farm as a fable.\u003cbr\u003e The woman was a psychologist who had studied English literature on a scholarship at Oxford, fought in the Spanish Civil War, and at the last minute prepared an escape plan to rescue Orwell and his colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e The nickname of the woman who worked in the censorship department of the Information Ministry and was responsible for censoring and deleting news was “Pig.”\u003cbr\u003e One day in 2017, international bestselling author Anna Funder discovered a strange writing left by George Orwell during his final days.\u003cbr\u003e And then I realize that this article is aimed at his first wife, Eileen.\u003cbr\u003e Coincidentally, in 2005, six letters left behind by Irene were discovered.\u003cbr\u003e There are some incredible stories here. \u003cbr\u003eThis book is a reconstruction of the true story of a woman who dedicated her life to creating the world of 'George Orwell', but who remains in the world only through the thirty-seven mentions of 'my wife'.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Ⅰ Wifehood, Counternarrative\u003cbr\u003e Ⅱ Invisible Projection\u003cbr\u003e Ⅲ Invisible Workers\u003cbr\u003e Ⅳ Happy Ending\u003cbr\u003e Ⅴ After death\u003cbr\u003e The final chapter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A brief commentary for Korean readers\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Translator's Note\u003cbr\u003e main\u003cbr\u003e Photo source\u003cbr\u003e References\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5502\/MidCate007\/550161947.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e I looked up the sources from which those stories were based and discovered other facts and figures there.\u003cbr\u003e These were deleted facts and people.\u003cbr\u003e Eileen began to come back to life. \u003cbr\u003eA colleague who worked with her in a political office once described Irene as \"the most talented\" person there, but no biographer cites this detail.\u003cbr\u003e Another colleague and friend described Eileen as having a “careful and humble demeanor” but also a “quiet integrity that never wavered.”\u003cbr\u003e What I discovered was a woman who saw things no one else could see and said things no one else could say.\u003cbr\u003e (…) I wanted to bring Eileen back to life.\u003cbr\u003e At the same time, I wanted to reveal the evil magic tricks that had erased him and that still exerted their influence today.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.48 From \"Black Box\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Give me an ad looking for a maid.\u003cbr\u003e Then choose the prettiest one among them and marry her.\u003cbr\u003e “Then,” at this point, our mother’s voice lowered and became mischievous. \u003cbr\u003e“You’ll get it all for free.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.89 From \"For Free\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The sight of wires on a tightrope walker can't help but inspire awe.\u003cbr\u003e The wife, unseen and unacknowledged, is the physical wire that lifts the tightrope walker into the sky, and often the intellectual wire as well.\u003cbr\u003e And for that act to be truly amazing, both the wire and the wife must be erased.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.91-92 From \"For Free\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Being a wife is a trick of evil magic that we have learned and practiced on ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e I want to expose how it is done.\u003cbr\u003e So I want to get rid of that evil force that uses deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.97 From \"For Free\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAfter the encounter in question, Jacinta wrote to Orwell, expressing her “shock and disgust at his attempt to force her into having sex with him… At the time, Orwell pinned her down (Orwell was 193 centimeters tall at the time and Jacinta was still just over 150 centimeters tall), ripped her skirt, and badly bruised her shoulder and left buttock, even as she struggled and screamed for him to stop.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.99 From “Passive, Stiff”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When women cannot be completely erased, they are suspected, trivialized, or reduced to a footnote in font size 8.\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes the time sequence is manipulated to conceal it.\u003cbr\u003e (…) And when none of these methods work, the women are assumed to have consented to what was done to them. \u003cbr\u003eIn Eileen's case, it was a completely fictitious \"menage a trois\" or fabricated 'open marriage'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.101 From “Passive, Stiff”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Patriarchy is a fiction.\u003cbr\u003e All the main characters are male, and the world is described from a male perspective.\u003cbr\u003e Women are a supporting cast, or rather a class.\u003cbr\u003e We all live in that story, and it's so powerful that it has replaced reality.\u003cbr\u003e We see no other narrative that could unravel our lives, no other role that escapes patriarchy.\u003cbr\u003e Because there is no outside to patriarchy.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.102 From “Passive, Stiff”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So I write.\u003cbr\u003e As Orwell put it, it's because there's a lie we want to expose, a fact we want to focus our attention on.\u003cbr\u003e Or, coincidentally, someone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.103 From “Passive, Stiff”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOne biographer writes, as if referring to completely unrelated events that run parallel to Orwell's move:\u003cbr\u003e “Meanwhile, Orwell continued to sleep with Kay during the week and kept the weekends free for Eileen…” And Orwell was also seeing another woman, Sally, who had until then refused to have sex with him.\u003cbr\u003e Did Eileen know this was happening?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.106 From \"Engagement\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is one risk you have to take.\u003cbr\u003e Because showing the world's injustice can torment and harm you.\u003cbr\u003e But perhaps this book will arm you to stand up to that injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.125 From “Confessions of a Gendered Soul”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A wife gives a man two lives.\u003cbr\u003e A life you can leave and a life you can return to and enjoy.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.145 From \"Barely Living\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Everyone loved Irene.\u003cbr\u003e Not only men, but also women. \u003cbr\u003e(…) When you work in the same office every day, you tend to come to know the personalities of your coworkers.\u003cbr\u003e “Compared to the exiles, reformers, revolutionaries, and others who were politically involved in our office, Eileen stands out.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.177 From \"Spy and Lies, Barcelona, ​​1937\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Orwell mentions that the attack was launched “the day before” “on the POUM building” (i.e., on Eileen’s office).\u003cbr\u003e To put his concerns about his wife and the dangerous situation that caused them far away.\u003cbr\u003e Orwell writes that “an armed assault party of twenty or thirty men” had taken control of the Mocha Cafe next door and were shooting at people in the street. \u003cbr\u003eWhen Orwell says that he learned that “everyone was safe and no one had been shot,” he actually means that he learned that Eileen was safe.\u003cbr\u003e 'Amoo' is none other than Eileen.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.200 From \"In Search of Battle, May 3, 1937\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But in reality, that wasn't the case.\u003cbr\u003e As soon as Eileen heard the news, she and Cope got into the car and headed to the front line.\u003cbr\u003e He arrived within 48 hours of Orwell's injury and was by his side \"every moment\" during his stay in Lleida and Tarragona.\u003cbr\u003e Eileen nursed Orwell, traveled with him, dealt with doctors, and arranged transportation for him to the Maureen Sanatorium.\u003cbr\u003e (…) Orwell spends over 2,500 words telling us about his hospital treatment, yet never once mentions Eileen's presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.220 From \"In Search of Battle, May 3, 1937\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I type his manuscripts for him, but he can’t read the corrections I’ve written by hand on the back of the manuscript, so he always has to go back to me and ask me for corrections.\u003cbr\u003e (…) I don’t know if I can leave my seat for even a single day.\u003cbr\u003e “The book work is running late and the final manuscript hasn’t even been typed up yet.”\u003cbr\u003e --- pp.269-276 from \"Wallington, January 1, 1938\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Any writer can fall into the gap between the reader's imagination of who he or she is and who he or she really is.\u003cbr\u003e And there might be a woman living there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.323 From “Beware of the Gap”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It is unclear exactly what kind of censorship Eileen was involved in at Senator House.\u003cbr\u003e But it is possible that Orwell was inspired and influenced by what Eileen did there: to erase certain truths and replace them with a pure form of national image. \u003cbr\u003eOrwell probably modeled the building after the Ministry of Truth (actually the Ministry of Falsehood) in 1984.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.347 From \"Propaganda\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Please.\u003cbr\u003e Write me a letter.\u003cbr\u003e The difficulty is that I am too depressed to write letters.\u003cbr\u003e There have been times when I half-thought I could go to Bristol, but it's been literally years since I've been able to use my weekends as I please.\u003cbr\u003e “George is going to vomit blood.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.385 From \"The Blitz\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Both Stevie Smith and Inez Holden fell in love with [Orwell] and would cry and vent to Eileen.\u003cbr\u003e “The story was that Orwell didn’t care about them.” How should a wife comfort her husband’s lovers?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.404 From \"Eat\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The very format of the book—part fable, part novel, part satire—was Irene's idea. \u003cbr\u003eIrene persuaded Orwell to change course when he was writing an essay criticizing Stalin and totalitarianism, and from then on they wrote stories together while lying in bed to keep warm during the bombing.\u003cbr\u003e Animal Farm was a masterpiece born from the meeting of Eileen's mental depth and empathy with Orwell's political insight.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.419 From “Other Animals”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eileen no longer says that she doesn't care whether she lives or dies.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.430 From “Flower Buds”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I was sometimes unfaithful to Eileen and treated her very harshly, and I think she was also very harsh to me, but it was a true marriage.\u003cbr\u003e “In the sense that we've been through some terrible hardships together, and Eileen has understood everything about my work and so on.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.515 From “Love, Work”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I don’t think you know what a nightmare life in London is for me.\u003cbr\u003e I know it's the same for you, but you often talk as if I like it.\u003cbr\u003e (…) But for years, I felt like I was in a moderate concentration camp.”\u003cbr\u003e --- p.519 From “Love, Work”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He changed the title of the book.\u003cbr\u003e Now that book will be called 1984.\u003cbr\u003e Just like the poem Eileen wrote.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.545 From \"No\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e★[New York Times] [Economist] [Guardian] [The Times] Books of the Year 2023\u003cbr\u003e ★Recommended by [The Independent], [The Wall Street Journal], and [LA Times], and a finalist for the [Women's Nonfiction Award]\u003cbr\u003e ★Special inclusion of over 40 photos and a short commentary for Korean readers.\u003cbr\u003e Recommended by Kang Hwa-gil, Park Sang-hyun, and Jeong Hee-jin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “He changed the title of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Now that book will be called 1984.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Just like the poem Eileen wrote.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBefore George Orwell's 1984, there was a woman who wrote a dystopian poem called [Fin de siècle, 1984].\u003cbr\u003e The poem mentions a future where people are 'brainwashed' by 'telepathy'.\u003cbr\u003e She was also the one who planned and co-edited Animal Farm as a fable.\u003cbr\u003e The woman was a psychologist who had studied English literature on a scholarship at Oxford, participated in the Spanish Civil War, cared for Orwell when he was injured on the front lines, and at the last minute, when he was about to be arrested and executed, she prepared an escape plan using the passports and documents she had saved from a search and seizure, and rescued Orwell and his colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e The nickname of a woman who worked in the Information Ministry's censorship division during World War II, censoring and deleting news, was \"Pig.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “…the pigs had to work incredibly hard every day to create these enigmatic things called ‘files,’ ‘reports,’ ‘minutes,’ and ‘memoranda.’ \u003cbr\u003eThey were large sheets of paper, which had to be filled with writing, and as soon as they were filled, they were burned.” _Pages 498-499, from Animal Farm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One day in 2017, Anna Funder, a world-renowned bestselling author who won the Samuel Johnson Medal (now the Baillie Gifford Medal), Britain's top non-fiction award, discovered a strange writing left by George Orwell during his final days.\u003cbr\u003e And then you realize that this article is aimed at his first wife, Eileen Maud O'Shaughnessy Blair.\u003cbr\u003e Coincidentally, in 2005, six letters left by Eileen to her close friend Nora Symes Miles were discovered.\u003cbr\u003e There are some incredible stories here.\u003cbr\u003e The author decides to uncover Eileen's true identity, which is not revealed in any records, and follows Eileen's trail. \u003cbr\u003eBy unearthing records left by those close to the couple and conducting extensive research including a visit to Spain with the couple's adopted son, Richard Blair, we restore the name of the woman who created the world of 'George Orwell' and his writings at the couple's kitchen table, desk, and bed, yet is remembered only as 'my wife' thirty-seven times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRevealed in unnoticed history\u003cbr\u003e The New Orwell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author Anna Funder is a former human rights lawyer who worked for the Australian government. Her first book, Stasiland, set in East Germany, won awards such as the Bavarian Literature Prize and the Samuel Johnson Award, earning recognition as a non-fiction writer. \u003cbr\u003eThis book, \"Behind George Orwell,\" which has already reached Korean readers, is the culmination of the author's characteristically persistent investigative work to restore unrecorded voices and explore the relationships between power, memory, and truth.\u003cbr\u003e At the beginning of this journey, there was a text written by George Orwell, a writer whom the author greatly admires, aimed at his first wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “There were two important facts about women… One was that they were incorrigibly dirty and unkempt.\u003cbr\u003e The other was their frighteningly voracious sexual appetite.” _Pages 33-34, from Orwell’s notes from his illness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e George Orwell rarely mentioned his wife Eileen, and in the 'official' accounts of his biographers, Eileen was \"a figure of mystery\" (p. 118).\u003cbr\u003e On the other hand, Eileen, discovered by Anna Funder, is a person full of humor and wit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I think I lost the habit of writing letters promptly during the first few weeks of marriage.\u003cbr\u003e Eric and I fought so constantly, so fiercely.\u003cbr\u003e “If a murder or separation is accomplished, it may even be time-saving to write just one letter and send it to everyone.” _Page 23, from Eileen’s 1936 letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, written during the Spanish Civil War, Eileen is the one who sends “tea and chocolate” (p. 168).\u003cbr\u003e Orwell's biographers also claim that Eileen went to Spain \"to work as a volunteer\" and \"just to be near Orwell.\"\u003cbr\u003e The truth was different.\u003cbr\u003e Eileen worked in logistics and propaganda for the Spanish branch of the ILP (Independent Labour Party) and saved the lives of Orwell and his colleagues. \u003cbr\u003eThe person who most vividly recorded Eileen's activities was not her husband Orwell, but an American colleague named Charles Orr who worked with her in the Propaganda Department.\u003cbr\u003e In his records, Eileen was never a secondary figure.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, he was a “standout” person, and he was the one who guided Orwell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Everyone loved Irene.\u003cbr\u003e Not only men, but also women.\u003cbr\u003e … Orwell was still just an unknown aspiring writer, and … Eileen helped this taciturn man connect with others.\u003cbr\u003e …any man who could have such a wonderful woman as his wife must have had something good about him.\u003cbr\u003e “Within a year of their marriage, Eileen had become Orwell’s spokesperson.” _Pages 177-179, from Charles Orr’s notes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn various testimonies and records, Eileen was the one who financially supported, psychologically supported, intellectually interacted with, and supported the creative work of aspiring writer Eric Blair, enabling him to become the great writer George Orwell.\u003cbr\u003e The author is constantly amazed that he, a George Orwell fan, was unaware of Eileen's devotion, and that Eileen was an 'invisible being' who was deliberately erased.\u003cbr\u003e Why didn't we know about Irene? Who erased Irene's name?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEileen is a great writer, George Orwell.\u003cbr\u003e How was it created?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eileen and Orwell first met at a small party in the spring of 1935.\u003cbr\u003e Eileen had studied literature at Oxford on a scholarship and was currently pursuing a master's degree in psychology at UCL.\u003cbr\u003e Eric Blair, a poor aspiring writer working in a bookstore, meets Eileen when he proposes a party to the landlord of the house he is staying at. \u003cbr\u003eThe two soon promise to get married.\u003cbr\u003e Lydia Jackson, the Russian psychologist who took Irene to the party and became a close friend of the couple, recalls:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “What! Already?” I shouted.\u003cbr\u003e … “So what are you going to do?” “I don’t know… You know, I promised myself that when I turned thirty, I would accept the first man who proposed to me.\u003cbr\u003e But… next year I’ll be thirty… ” _Pages 55-56, from Lydia Jackson’s notes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After their marriage in 1936, the couple moved to the countryside as Orwell had wished.\u003cbr\u003e For this, Eileen, who gave up her degree, takes care of Orwell's livelihood and housework so that he can focus on his writing.\u003cbr\u003e She takes care of Orwell, who suffers from tuberculosis, participates in the Spanish Civil War, and rescues her husband and his manuscripts.\u003cbr\u003e First of all, he begins proofreading and editing Orwell's manuscript.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“I type his manuscripts for him, but he can’t read the corrections I’ve written by hand on the back of the manuscript, so he always has to go back to me.” _Page 269, Eileen’s letter to Nora, 1938\u003cbr\u003e “Please.\u003cbr\u003e Write me a letter.\u003cbr\u003e …It's literally been years since I haven't been able to use my weekends as I please.\u003cbr\u003e “George will vomit blood.” _Page 385, Letter from Eileen to Nora, 1940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Irene begins participating in the planning stages of her work.\u003cbr\u003e In 1944, when Orwell was thinking of writing an essay criticizing Stalin, Eileen suggested that he “write it as a novel, a fable about animals, which [Eileen] was very fond of and had once wanted to write herself.” \u003cbr\u003e“Every evening Orwell would read Eileen a passage of his writing and exchange comments,” and the two would lie in “the freezing first-floor bedroom” and “talk about it scene by scene.”\u003cbr\u003e Eileen “went to work every morning and told her friends about the new additions” (pp. 416-420).\u003cbr\u003e This book is none other than the classic of the century, Animal Farm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Eileen dedicated her life to creating George Orwell.\u003cbr\u003e However, she died at the young age of thirty-nine during a hysterectomy in 1945.\u003cbr\u003e “While my wife was grieving the loss of her family,” Orwell wrote a letter to another woman seeking a secret meeting, saying, “Eileen said I could give myself a birthday present” (pp. 364-365), and left his adopted newborn and sick wife behind (pp. 435-439). \u003cbr\u003eEileen, who needed at least a month of hospitalization and blood transfusions due to severe anemia, died alone at a rural hospital where she had gone for inexpensive same-day surgery while waiting for Orwell's reply.\u003cbr\u003e He had a premonition of death and even left a will, but he supported Orwell until the very end (pp. 440-473).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I think it’s really necessary for you to write a book again.\u003cbr\u003e …I want to see you stop living a literary life and start writing again.” _Pages 453-454, Eileen Orwell's letter to him in 1945 (eight days before his death)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRereading Orwell, rewriting the narrative,\u003cbr\u003e Restoring erased voices and rewriting history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is not a fight between male writer George Orwell and later female writer Anna Funder. \u003cbr\u003eRather, it is closer to the battle between Orwell's various biographers and Eileen's biographer Anna Funder, the battle between formalized evaluation and reevaluation, the battle between the unconditional admiration for a male artist and the attempt to revive a woman who disappeared in that admiration.”_Page 583, from the 'Translator's Note'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Orwell, who lost the person who had taken care of everything for him, also died less than five years later.\u003cbr\u003e In the months immediately following his death, he “proposed to” at least four women (p. 502), and in a letter to one of them, Ann Olivia Popham, he asked her “if she would like to be a literary widow” and said:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “I really want someone to spend the rest of my life with me and my work… If I live another ten years, I think I’ll write three more worthwhile books.”_Pages 513-516, from Orwell’s letter to Anne\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOrwell knew exactly what Eileen had done for him.\u003cbr\u003e Without Irene, would George Orwell have existed? And neither would his works.\u003cbr\u003e The author George Orwell and his works also drew on Irene's life.\u003cbr\u003e But Eileen's dedication and hard work were erased.\u003cbr\u003e Orwell himself, who had advised, “Never use the passive voice where you can use the active voice” (p. 98), reduced Eileen’s contribution to the passive voice and replaced her name with the reference to “wife.”\u003cbr\u003e Biographers manipulate the chronology and even fabricate the truth, going so far as to erase Irene's very existence.\u003cbr\u003e That's how we create 'the great writers of the 20th century'.\u003cbr\u003e By whom and through what process is the 'truth' we have believed in created?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is not just a simple biography.\u003cbr\u003e According to the author, this is not a book that seeks to “cancel” Orwell (p. 49). \u003cbr\u003eBy reviving the name of a human being who has been intentionally omitted, diminished, and disintegrated into a 'false agreement', hidden behind the shadow of a great myth, this book asks us how exploitation and silence are demanded, and confronts the structures that make them possible.\u003cbr\u003e George Orwell once said, “An autobiography is only trustworthy if it reveals something shameful” (p. 85).\u003cbr\u003e He “forbidden any biography to be written about him” to his second wife, Sonia, whom he had married three months before his death (p. 554).\u003cbr\u003e Can we really say that we have read the half-baked Orwell who has added the fictional myth of the \"perfect genius male writer\" that he himself rejected?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book, which breaks the existing narrative and opens up new horizons of interpretation, provides a turning point for rereading Orwell's iconic works. \u003cbr\u003eThe message that the story of someone erased from history can change history again has been a message that literature has given us regardless of the era.\u003cbr\u003e This book, which revives the life of a woman buried for 70 years, will open readers to new ways of viewing the world by encountering the hidden heroes of literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslator's Note\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We generally value and listen more to the meaningless words of a famous writer than to the screams of pain of an ordinary person with all his might.\u003cbr\u003e At the end of the book, it is said that “what Eileen achieved was life itself.” \u003cbr\u003eWhy did the author have to spend so many pages explaining this obvious fact? 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