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S'està carregant… Animal Farm (1945 original; edició 1956)de George Orwell (Autor)
Informació de l'obraLa revolta dels animals de George Orwell (1945)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Orwell’s best work of fiction by some distance. It has the lightness of touch characteristic of his essays but otherwise absent from his novels. The narrative unfolds at a swift pace and with an organic inevitability. The characters are types, this is a fable after all, but Orwell uses his loyal carthorses, wise old donkeys and mindless sheep to moving effect. Animal Farm is short and brutal; unlike 1984, however, it leaves this reader feeling invigorated by Orwell’s artistry and clear-eyed vision, rather than bludgeoned into despair. Is it about the tragedy inevitably brought by revolution? Or the tragedy of revolution betrayed? I think both interpretations are valid, though it would be an odd reader who concluded that the animals were wrong to rebel against Mr Jones. Despite his socialism there were strong elements of fatalism and pessimism in Orwell and they find clear expression here. It is also a book which could only have been written by someone with a profound, almost anarchistic, scepticism towards authority and ideology in all their forms. Animal Farm was conceived as a book with a specific polemical purpose. Orwell wrote it to ‘expose the Soviet myth’: not to make the world safe for capitalism but to clear the way for genuine socialism. His timely intervention produced a work of timeless and universal relevance. Ultimately it isn’t about Soviet Russia. It speaks to our eternal need for liberation and how it is betrayed, not just by mendacious pigs, but our own misplaced faith in those who profess to lead us. Pertany a aquestes col·leccions editorialsArion Press (99) Biblioteca Folha (14) Blackbirds (1993.3) — 39 més Clube de Literatura Clássica (CLC) (40.1 [August 2023]) Delfinserien (45) Destinolibro (23) Fischer Bücherei (216) Gallimard, Folio (1516) Grote ABC (126) Llibres a mà (7) Gli Oscar [Mondadori] (102) Penguin Audiobooks (PEN 252) Penguin Books (838) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2021) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) Penguin Modern Classics (838) RBA Narrativa Actual (10) Signet Classics (CW1028) Stichting De Roos (155) Volk und Welt Spektrum (261) Áncora y Delfín (413) Contingut aTé l'adaptacióAbreujat aHa inspiratTé un estudiTé un comentari al textTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiantsTé una guia del professorPremisDistincionsLlistes notables
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HTML: George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution has become an intimate part of our contemporary culture, with its treatment of democratic, fascist, and socialist ideals through an animal fable. The animals of Mr. Jones' Manor Farm are overworked, mistreated, and desperately seeking a reprieve. In their quest to create an idyllic society where justice and equality reign, the animals of Manor Farm revolt against their human rulers, establishing the democratic Animal Farm under the credo, "All Animals Are Created Equal." Out of their cleverness, the pigs??Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball??emerge as leaders of the new community. In a development of insidious familiarity, the pigs begin to assume ever greater amounts of power, while other animals, especially the faithful horse Boxer, assume more of the work. The climax of the story is the brutal betrayal of Boxer, when totalitarian rule is reestablished with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: "But Some Animals Are More Equal than Others." This astonishing allegory, one of the most scathing satires in literary history, remains as fresh and relevant as the day it was published No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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And while I can see the depiction of the Russian Revolution and it’s components within this story, I also think that these characters and scenarios can transcend the intended allegory. Meaning it’s contents can be applied to more than just the Russian Revolution and it’s leaders, but to any nation in which leadership is corrupt and all powerful.
Anyway, Orwell’s writing was good – I would have liked it to be a touch more smooth and easy reading like, and it is a short book but you get a lot of detail and development from the story and it’s characters.
I definitely recommend reading it, if not for the historical nature of it then for the unique portrayal of the ideas held within.
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