![]() Grant also appeared as Gordon Comstock in a film version of Orwell’s novel. Grant is one Britain’s best-loved actors, and best remembered for his role in Withnail & I. The central character, Gordon Comstock, wont conform. It also hints towards themes about power and relationships that would colour his later works Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Anyway, Keep the Aspidistra Flying was my fifth Orwell novel, and I enjoyed it. Written during Orwell’s time living in Notting Hill and set in London during “the year of blight, 1934”, the novel is a fine example of Orwell’s wit, and a masterpiece of fiction. Gordon’s problems mount while his only published volume, “Mice”, gathers dust on a shelf, and his attempts at a new collection stagnate. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him. ![]() Unwilling to dilute his stubborn stance on capitalistic pursuits, he constantly obsesses “money, money, money, all is money”. Keep the Aspidistra Flying 1997 Directed by Robert Bierman Synopsis Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. ![]() On top of this, it gives him terrible trouble holding on to his girlfriend. Gordon’s disdain for money and artistic compromise preclude his earning enough of a living to escape constant public embarrassment. ![]() Orwell’s darkly comic novel centres around the life of Gordon Comstock, onetime advertising copywriter turned bookshop employee and struggling poet. ![]()
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