Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
2006年3月23日 读书笔记《动物庄园》 奥威尔你估量的事情,基本都没有说错。但总有一些小小的意外,你没有猜到,也就没办法言说。在主人房的窗沿底下,动物们窥见猪头拿破伦,变化出一张人类的脸孔,他们之后的反应,书里就没了下文,这让我联想纷纷,不知所措。 我所遭遇的...
评分事实上我们不能称之为一个“童话”,至少从内容和受众上来看并不完全是。不动声色的叙述之下,实为一则政治寓言,或是预言。而作者在乌克兰版的序言中也提到:“有些情节取自俄国革命的真实历史••••••打破苏联神话是必要的••••••想用一个故...
评分 评分 评分有些书如同没有剑柄的剑,不论你从哪个角度去握它,它都要把你割的鲜血泠泠,但你为了欣赏它,就不得不拿起它。 乔治·奥威尔的《动物庄园》就是这样一本书,它躺在那里,灿灿光芒照得的眼花缭乱,但你敢拿起来看么?它是没有剑柄的剑,霍的一声就会触疼你。 《动物庄园》是童...
从来没有这么讨厌过一个动物,那个叫拿破仑的猪你还有脸吗!Boxer马死的时候好伤心????
评分第一本英语小说,一开始并没有什么感觉,看到第九章,所有动物站在小山丘上,回想原来的动物庄园,笔触非常伤感抒情,李零的《读动物庄园》这篇说的对,不可将奥威尔的小说当成反G的看
评分以动物喻人,有趣而一针见血的讽刺。短小精湛,耐人寻味。
评分The outside creatures looked outside from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but really it's impossible to say which was which.
评分在返程的机上读完最后三个chapters,印象最深的还是读中文版时特意去看了原文的那句all animals are equal,but some animals are more equal than others;“四条腿好,两条腿坏”的两个“凡是”,之于我,很可乐。
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