"'Animal Farm' associations-- or metaphor, in the form of dogs as symbols-- went unnoticed upthread
what better critic of fascism exists than Orwell"
I like what you are saying. Digressions may not be as far off the topic of the thread as they seem. They may even help provide insight to the thread topic.
Roberto Bolaño might give him a run for his money, I think.
"In Nazi Literature of the Americas, Bolaño unfolds mini-biographies of fictive Nazi Latin American writers including Ernesto Pérez Mason, a Cuban “realist, naturalist, and expressionist novelist”; Max Mirabelais, a Haitian plagiarist; and Luis Fontaine da Souza, a Brazilian who exhausts himself trying to refute French Enlightenment thinkers.[9. Roberto Bolaño , Nazi Literature in the Americas, (New York: New Directions, 2008), p. 54.] This may seem a diverting counterfactual game, but, as Carmel Boullosa pointed out in her review of the book for The Nation, there were, in fact, many “philo-Fascist Latin American authors.”[10. Carmen Boullosa, “A Garden of Monsters,” The Nation, March 31, 2008,
https://www.thenation.com/article/garden-monsters/, accessed 11 April 2019.] Boullosa goes further to conjecture that, by ridiculing fascist writers, Bolaño was expressing skepticism of writers who came to identify too closely with government power or political authority, right or left.
In turn, Bolaño establishes himself as somebody whose authority lies in witness and empathy with the suffering as a mode of resistance. In The Third Reich, Bolaño depicts wargamers in Madrid playing a board game reenacting World War II, rendering the contemporary world as a repetition of fascism that, if we are lucky, will this time be farce, not tragedy. And in 2666, his most ambitious works, Bolaño brings together the reclusive German writer Arcimboldi and the femicides in Ciudad Juárez to articulate a contemporary valence based on class and gender and the mystified residue of a Nazi ideology that our world has disavowed but not jettisoned. Bolaño was in Chile in the aftermath of the 1973 Pinochet coup and two of his most harrowing works, By Night In Chile and Distant Star, tell the story of people of intellect, discernment, and talent who are co-opted or fall prey to supporting the military dictatorship at the height of its brutality and menace. As Héctor Hoyos points out, Bolaño ’s world is one where the Right, in its various incarnations from populism to neoliberalism, is ascendant and has the ideological energy, where it is no longer a case of leftist evolution versus stasis and conformism but where the villains have the sense the future is in their corner"
Both his words and manner of speech seemed at first totally unfamiliar to me, and yet somehow they stirred memories - as an actor might be stirred by the forgotten lines of some role he had played far away and long ago.