Gorer, Geoffrey
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1905-1985) UK anthropologist and author whose speculative studies in the cultural anthropology of the Western world – much influenced by his lifelong friend Margaret Mead (1901-1978) – were famous during his lifetime, and whose Nobody Talks Politics: A Satire With an Appendix on our Political Intelligentsia (1936) is a Satire on UK Politics of the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a young man woken from a ten-year trance (see Sleeper Awakes). Its Epilogue is set in the Near Future. [JC]
Geoffrey Edgar Solomon Gorer
born London: 26 March 1905
died Sussex: 24 May 1985
works
- Nobody Talks Politics: A Satire With an Appendix on our Political Intelligentsia (London: Michael Joseph, 1936) [hb/]
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