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"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant--as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches--with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons--and his near fatal wounding. 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.
Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation," Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil War.
"No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible."-- Alfred Kazin, New York Times
"A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten."--Chicago Sunday Tribune
"One of Orwell's very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War."--The New Yorker
In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant--as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches--with a "democratic army" composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons--and his near fatal wounding. 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.
Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called "the wintry conscience of a generation," Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell's memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell's views on the Spanish Civil War.
"No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible."-- Alfred Kazin, New York Times
"A wise book, one that once read will never be forgotten."--Chicago Sunday Tribune
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780544382046 |
| ISBN-10: | 0544382048 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Orwell, George |
| Auflage: | Revised edition |
| Hersteller: | HarperCollins |
| Maße: | 203 x 133 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | George Orwell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.05.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,383 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2015 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780544382046 |
| ISBN-10: | 0544382048 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Orwell, George |
| Auflage: | Revised edition |
| Hersteller: | HarperCollins |
| Maße: | 203 x 133 x 18 mm |
| Von/Mit: | George Orwell |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 19.05.2015 |
| Gewicht: | 0,383 kg |
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