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George Orwell

English novelist and essayist whose The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) named smell as the secret at the heart of class prejudice. One essay so far.

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The architecture of class in Parasite

Stairs, windows, sunlight and smell: how Bong Joon-ho builds a class system out of a house, then floods it.
Oct 2026