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Orwell draws on his experience in the Indian Imperial Police for his first novel, "Burmese Days", a devastating indictment of British colonial rule (he resigned 'to escape not merely from imperialism but from every form of man's dominion over man', as he later wrote). John Flory, cowardly and self-pitying, makes an unlikely but all-too-human tragic hero as he defies convention and prejudice to befriend an Indian doctor, then shoots himself when the girl who had seemed to promise escape from the stultifying 'lie' of colonial life refuses to marry him. While reporting on the dark side of the Raj, Orwell nonetheless came under the spell of the landscape of the East, and the exotic background of "Burmese Days" inspired his most lush descriptive writing...Back in England, Orwell tackles capitalism, nonconformity and compromise in "Keep The Aspidistra Flying". Youthful idealist and would-be author Gordon Comstock rebels against a life of middle-class respectability (symbolized by the aspidistra), abandoning his job with an advertising company to work part-time in a bookshop. But everything goes wrong: alternately proud and self-loathing, he lets himself sink into poverty; he is unable to write; and, he gets his long-suffering girlfriend pregnant. At the end, respectably married - and with an aspidistra of his own -he is back at his old firm writing copy for deodorant ads. Grimly comic - and again, written from Orwell's own experience, this time of living in the London slums - "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" is a still-relevant commentary on society's subservience to 'the Money God' and an affirmation of the power of human relationships to survive in spite of it. In "Coming Up for Air", George Bowling, married, mortgaged and middle aged, deals with his mid-life crisis by forsaking dull suburbia for a rural idyll. But the fondly remembered village of his childhood has been transformed by the very 'Progress' he seeks to escape: the estate where he used to fish has been built over; the pond turned into a rubbish dump. An old girlfriend fails to recognize him, and she herself is shockingly ravaged by time. Written in 1938-9, "Coming Up For Air" is permeated with nostalgia for the England of a more tranquil age - before industrialization and capitalism had done their worst - and overshadowed by premonitions of what is to come - 'the war and the after-war, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, machine-guns, food-queues, rubber truncheons'. Above all, it unsparingly confronts the failure of youthful dreams and the impossibility of ever reclaiming the past.
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虽读过简短版的《动物庄园》和尝试《1984》的第一章（但并没喜欢），这次很快读完奥威尔的原文小说《Burmese Days》。BD是他的处女作，涉及到二十世纪早期、缅甸还属大英帝国时代。当时奥威尔自己在缅甸当了五年英国警察。他把五年的经验浓缩成这本小说。看的很过瘾。
评分比早期的作品要精炼很多。orwell写细节
评分比早期的作品要精炼很多。orwell写细节
评分Finally finished it - though may have read it before, not sure.. A nice peace about those poor Englis men and women lost in translation of Burmese heat.
评分我以为今天早上book test，结果周日上午发愤图强硬是读完了，结果……是这周五！！！！再也不相信爱情了！！！（奥威尔的笔触一如既往的细腻，虽然很久之前就看过中文版了，但是英文版完全不一样的感觉，明显感觉更为生动，读的时候仿佛闭上眼睛就能看到U Po Kyn伪善的嘴脸，Flory自欺欺人地扭过脸遮住自己的胎记。太爱这种小说的感觉了，以至于没忍住中午吃饭前又过了一边中文版……
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