Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
對喬治.奧威爾的兩部小說《1984》《動物莊園》仰慕已久,前一陣看完《1984》之後,迴味良久,但一直沒有接著看《動物莊園》,今天看douban上看到瞭網友的評論,又有空,所以就down瞭一本看,比《1984》短,隻有10章,很快就看完瞭. 在剛開始看的時候,感覺似曾相識,突然想起大...
評分看瞭榮如德先生譯的《動物農場》,這是第一次看榮先生的譯作,而是我看的第6本《動物農場》譯本。現在已經有瞭至少9種《動物農場》譯本,除瞭個彆譯本,大都還不錯。 看榮先生譯作,感覺先生的中文功底很深,許多用詞令我贊嘆,不過譯文也有白壁微暇的地方,看書時隨便記下幾...
評分《動物農場》和《一九八四》所講述的同是諸多我們習以為常的”規則“,不同的是它有”1984年“之前的”奮鬥史“、”解放史“、”改造史“,而《1984》則是描述1984國的狀態。兩者結閤在一起,纔是完整的'我們"。 因為看的是電子書,摘抄變得非常容易。就摘錄如下。 1.投票事件...
評分 評分有些書如同沒有劍柄的劍,不論你從哪個角度去握它,它都要把你割的鮮血泠泠,但你為瞭欣賞它,就不得不拿起它。 喬治·奧威爾的《動物莊園》就是這樣一本書,它躺在那裏,燦燦光芒照得的眼花繚亂,但你敢拿起來看麼?它是沒有劍柄的劍,霍的一聲就會觸疼你。 《動物莊園》是童...
everyone is equal. some pigs are more equal.
评分迄今為止看得最為順暢的一本原版。或許是對於作者的寫作背景、錶達主題和風格太過瞭解吧。很高興能在新年第一個星期就開瞭一個讀原版的好頭。另:奧威爾小說中的悲慟,我們還會體會多久。
评分極權主義有幾個特徵: 1.人民生活在愚昧之中,逆來順受 2.社會越來越富裕,統治者越來越富並擁有更多的特權,他們宣揚生活越來越好,事實上人民越來越貧窮,工作越來越苦 3.不遺餘力地抹殺曆史 4.樹立所謂的“反麵人物”靶子,批判、仇恨,清理政敵 5.統治者私下與不同的政權勾結 6.在語言文化上限製民眾的思想 7.對統治者歌功頌德 8.統治者身邊圍繞一群爪牙或親衛隊一樣的存在,必要時恐嚇民眾、趕走政敵
评分沒想到這本書這麼短。還是很喜歡Orwell感情強烈的政治寓言。蘇聯垮瞭,天朝人民依然還在地裏辛勤勞作。
评分沒想到這本書這麼短。還是很喜歡Orwell感情強烈的政治寓言。蘇聯垮瞭,天朝人民依然還在地裏辛勤勞作。
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