Homage to Catalonia - Couverture souple

Orwell, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1922491101 ISBN 13 : 9781922491107

Editeur : Actuel Editions, 2020

Synopsis

"A crucially important book." - The Guardian
"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War." - The New Yorker
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's brutally honest account of his experience as a militiaman during the Spanish Civil War. 
In the last days of 1936, Spain was five months into a bitter civil war, in which volunteers from many countries were helping the elected government of the Spanish Republic battle a military coup led by General Francisco Franco and backed by and Mussolini. Some foreigners flocking to Spain had come for another reason: the northeast part of the country, partiarly Catalonia, was in the midst of the most far-reaching social revolution ever seen in Western Europe.
Workers had taken over factories and peasants the large estates; waiters were running restaurants and trolley drivers the transport systems. Municipal garbage trucks carried anarchist slogans. Hundreds of idealistic itors wanted to take part in a revolution that came not, as in Stalin's Russia, from the top down, but from the bottom up. 
In 1936, George Orwell, intending to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, quickly found himself embroiled as a participant - as a member of the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM), or the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification - an independent leftist group with its own militia at the front. Fighting against the Fascists, Orwell described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.
Orwell's experience was a great influence on his political development and his subsequent work, leading him to become a dystopian writer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

His publications include Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), Burmese Days (1934), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Coming up for Air (1939); 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Actuel Editions
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1922491101
• ISBN 13: 9781922491107
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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