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Originally posted by taxwonk
Norman Mailer
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This is an example of why "influential" is a bad word for this sort of question. Or why this is just a bad question, in the "Who's better? The Stones or Beatles?" sort of way.
What has Orwell influenced? He's made people aware and vigilant, but is 1984 or Animal Farm
influencing any writer? They're not terribly complex books.
I'd say his short story "A Hanging" explained more eloquently all the reasons I loathe capital punishment than I ever could. But it hasn't influenced me in any way.
