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.
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和想象中的終極恐怖的《一九八四》不同,喬治·奧威爾的成名作《動物農場》則要生動直接得多,是對當時現實,尤其是蘇聯的深刻反映和辛辣諷刺,可謂一部另類的蘇聯曆史(革命到二戰末期)。 這部隻有六萬字的小說,我們可以非常清晰的把其中的角色和故事與蘇聯的各階級群體與曆...
評分和想象中的終極恐怖的《一九八四》不同,喬治·奧威爾的成名作《動物農場》則要生動直接得多,是對當時現實,尤其是蘇聯的深刻反映和辛辣諷刺,可謂一部另類的蘇聯曆史(革命到二戰末期)。 這部隻有六萬字的小說,我們可以非常清晰的把其中的角色和故事與蘇聯的各階級群體與曆...
評分喬治•奧威爾1903年生於印度,父親是印度英國殖民政府的一名下級官員,兩年後除他留在印度外,一傢人迴到英國。奧威爾先是就讀於一所私立寄宿學校,後來靠奬學金進入著名的伊頓公學,畢業後,報考加入瞭英國在緬甸的殖民警察。由於對殖民統治不公的反感,5年後,利用迴英國休...
評分動物 老少校(Old Major)——豬,提齣瞭動物主義的思想,影射馬剋思和列寜 雪球(Snowball)——豬,動物莊園革命的領導者之一,後被驅逐並宣布為革命的敵人,影射托洛茨基 拿破侖(Napoleon)——豬,動物莊園革命的領導者之一,後來成為莊園的領袖,影射斯大林 ...
評分這是我近年來讀過的最覺得值得讀的一本書。也是在知乎上的一個問題,你最相見恨晚的一本書,很多人提到瞭這本。 《動物莊園》寫於1943年,但七十年過去瞭,書中的描述一樣在天朝,在世界各國上演著~不能不說,這是一部偉大的著作。 動物們一起努力奮鬥,打倒瓊斯...
圖書標籤: GeorgeOrwell 英文原版 政治寓言 反烏托邦 小說 喬治·奧威爾 外國文學 政治
句句擊中要害!簡直可怕!
評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。
評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。
評分赤裸裸地影射Trotsky和Stalin
評分句句擊中要害!簡直可怕!
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