Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism.
Considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture, Orwell wrote fiction, polemical journalism, literary criticism and poetry. He is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945)—they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language and culture, are widely acclaimed.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian"—now a byword for any totalitarian or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society—have entered the vernacular.
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这里说的译本分别是董乐山、刘绍铭和孙仲旭的译本,这三个译本流传比较广,质量也都不错。本文试图通过一些译例,结合原文,来简要比较这三个译本。 第一部 第一章 Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternatively co...
评分《1984》中有一个很小的细节,读到的时候我惊了一跳。 大洋国的外围党员每天早晨醒来之后,都要在电幕的监视下做一套体操。其中有一节“指尖碰脚趾”的动作,是温斯顿最痛恨的。每次一做这个动作,他都会“从脚踵到屁股感到一阵剧痛,最后常常又引起咳嗽的发作。”他原本正陷于...
评分拿到这一版的《1984》,还没有看到内容就已经感到些许悲哀。悲哀可能就来源于这句“日本著名作家村上春树以1Q84》向《1984》致敬”吧。这部“堪称世界文坛讽喻小说的不朽高峰和里程碑式力作。”竟然首先是以当代流行作家的作品为噱头来推荐,就好比我推荐《西游记》时用“七龙...
评分 评分奥威尔在书中得出了一个必将到来的悲观结论,我始终不能明白,为什么多数人总是对此视而不见。 我对于1984的看法是:这是一部极为悲观的作品,那种绝望的悲观如同饥饿,寒冷或者肉体的痛楚,你以为用冷漠可以咬牙坚持过去,但结果只是一再证明自己的软弱无力。 造就那种悲观...
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First published in 1949, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" has lost none of the impact with which it first hit readers. Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent - even in the mind. For those with original thoughts they invented Room 101.
不经历的人不会懂。
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评分前半很吸引人,后面就越来越崩了。
评分还是更喜欢Animal Farm,不过这本也不错。
评分到现在我依然坚信政治活动于人类的进步或是美好事物而言几乎在起着反作用,曾经一度我一直在思考为什么人们会坚持不懈的坚持着这些让世界变得不美好的事情,后来我才知道,人类就是不美好的,对于这个世界人类确实是污点般的存在,我们与所谓美好相距甚远,所以说那些追寻美好事物的人们可能才是“异类”,而这些追名逐利追求权力,控制等等的人们,其实就是人类本身。
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