Down and Out in Paris and London

作者:[英] 乔治·奥威尔

页数:224

出版时间:2013-1

价格:0

isbn号码:9780141393032

图书标签:英文原版小说乔治·奥威尔英国社会GeorgeOrwell英文英国文学

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, "Down and Out in Paris and London" is a moving tour of the underworld of society from the author of "1984", published with an introduction by Dervla Murphy in "Penguin Modern Classics". 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris' vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory "Animal Farm" was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. All his novels and non-fiction, including "Burmese Days" (1934), "Down and Out in Paris and London" (1933), "The Road to Wigan Pier" (1937) and "Homage to Catalonia" (1938) are published in "Penguin Modern Classics". If you enjoyed "Down and Out in Paris and London", you might like "Homage to Catalonia", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Orwell was the great moral force of his age". ("Spectator"). "The white-hot reaction of a sensitive, observant, compassionate young man to poverty". (Dervla Murphy).

读后感

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

George Orwell 将他在巴黎和伦敦底层生活的经历写了下来，那些漂泊生活，身无分文，穷困潦倒的经历。他被出版社拒绝了数次，终于得以出版此书。想来也是可以理解，在他生活的年代中，受教育的读者群大多对这种赤裸裸的，毫不浪漫，简单直白的贫穷生活缺乏兴趣吧。 在巴黎，他住...

用户评价

乔治奥威尔的“落魄随笔”，看得人想自己拿起笔写写身边的奇人异事。（英文书刚开头还有兴趣一个词一个词查，后来就完全“不求甚解”了....

特别喜欢写巴黎小酒馆打工的见闻。还有我作为一个中国人看英国人吐槽法国人跟美国人对吃的品味23333。很引人深思的一本书，并且在苦逼工作面试被拒期间觉得各种有共鸣觉得相比之下自己生活还不是太坏。然而伦敦部分不好意思我看了两遍都没太看进去讲了啥。

挖出一个n年没用的audible账号，发现自己还下过这部。然而听完发现自己大部分时候都麻木不仁，可能是每日新闻里看了太多鬼故事orz

乔治奥威尔再次以他惊人的观察力和细致的笔触呈现给我们一个如此广泛存在却往往被忽略的社会底层群体。他们的生活是那么具体，却又是那么不真实，赤贫给人身心带来的痛苦和麻木恐怕只有经历过赤贫才能知道，乔治奥威尔无疑用自己的亲身经历为我们打开了了解这个阶层的窗。通过他的处女作，我仿佛看到了一个实在得毫无水分的伟大作家的诞生。

早几年读可能会关注底层生活琐碎故事。现在明白流浪汉不只是个人选择，也有社会原因。 书中少有长评，最触动的是：He lives in a rhythm between work and sleep, without time to think, hardly conscious of the exterior world; his Paris has shrunk to the hotel, the Metro, a few bistros and his bed.……To sum up, a plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave——不要成为潜水员（plongeur），警醒自己：保持上进，多多社交，好好理财--2018年第23本，kindle第36本