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 "Unlike much literature of the nineteenth-century, that seeks a safe centre in which the artist and the audience can be comfortably together, the work of Jack London and George Orwell specialises in a tendency to extremes, a tendency to seek the social peripheries of experience, to dwell in regions of discomfort and confrontation, and, perhaps most fundamentally, to language the body into existence. London’s 'People of the Abyss' (1903) and Orwell’s 'Down and Out in Paris and London' (1933) transpose personal experience, notably involving their own bodies and “tramp” identities, while disclosing the body as an image of both depth and surface, of deep mysterious interiors and often codified exteriors." |
