17. Nostalgia, Misogyny, and the Future in Coming Up for Air

George Orwell's 1939 novel, Coming Up for Air , combines a sceptical view of the nostalgic with dread about a looming future of pain and suffering. This episode looks at how these emphases are bound up with the first-person narration of George Bowling, whose disreputability and misogyny makes him a compromised 'voice' for the modern world.