奥威尔原名埃里克阿瑟布莱尔(Eric Arthur Blair),1903年生于印度。
1907年他举家迁回到英格兰。1917年,他进入伊顿公学。1921年后来到缅甸加入Indianimperial Police,1928年辞职。随后的日子里他贫病交加,此间他当过教师、书店店员,直到1940年,他成为New English Weekly 的小说评论员,他才有了稳定的收入养家糊口。1936年间,他访问了兰开夏郡和约克郡,1936年底,他来到西班牙参加西班牙内战,其间他受伤。二战期间(1940-1943),他为BBS Eastern Service工作,并在此间写了大量政治和文学评论。1945年起他成为Observer的战地记者和Machester Evening News的固定撰稿人。
1945年,他出版了《动物农场》,1949年出版了《1984》。奥威尔患有肺结核,于1950年死去。
发表于2024-06-08
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool George Orwell Polemic, 7. March 1947. Tolstoy’s pamphlets are the least-known part of his work, and his attack on Shakespeare* is not even an easy document to get hold of, at any rate in an English translation. Perhaps, there...
评分 评分Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...
评分Upon reviewing this essay a certain paragraph struck me. ...Many political words are similarly abused. The wordFascismhas now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’. The wordsdemocracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realist...
评分社会进程、政治局势会影响语言发展和表达的质量,抽象空洞的政治语言会让语言衰落,模仿约定俗成的词组和表达只会让个人陷入familiar dreary pattern; 不谈政治是不可能的,任何问题都是政治问题(all issues are political issues , and politics itself is a mass of lies e...
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第一篇的嘲讽毫不留情,第二篇review犀利吐血…
评分大快人心 而且企鹅真的太会做生意了
评分大快人心 而且企鹅真的太会做生意了
评分“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer. ”
评分特别适合立场中立的journalist和认真搞学术的阅读。奥威尔的行文读来太爽快了!
Politics and the English Language 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书