6/20/2023 0 Comments Keep the aspidistra flying![]() He is looking at his own copy-writing creation: a meek, smug and compliant, smarmy-haired character: "Corner Table", who daily "enjoys his Bovex". In this production Comstock gazes out with loathing from the café window at the bill-board opposite. ![]() The thought is that he is wasting his talents and his life prostituting them in return for a worthless cause. The problem is that a thought is making Comstock increasingly uncomfortable. Gordon Comstock is a writer and would-be poet who makes a comfortable living as a copywriter for an advertising agency. ![]() This 1965 black and white BBC television version is the only one true to the book and it is a fine production particularly with its two leads: the late Alfred Lynch as Gordon Comstock and Anne Stallybrass as his long-suffering and loyal girlfriend, Rosemary. Just two film/TV productions have been made of "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" and the more recent of the two is so distant from the tone and the point of the original book as to scarcely count as a version of it. ![]()
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