Write a précis of the following passage and add a suitable title. 15
What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice. When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art’. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a book, or even a long magazine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience. Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
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ANSWER:
The Reconciliation of Art and Politics in Writing
For the past decade, the writer’s chief aim has been to transform political writing into an art. His work begins from a sense of injustice and the urge to expose lies, not from a desire to create art alone. Yet writing remains an aesthetic experience for him, shaped by his childhood worldview. Even when producing propaganda, he retains his personal tastes and interests, striving to balance his individual passions with the public demands of his time.
