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.
1.母牛唱的是哞哞的低音声部,狗的哀叫适用于长腔,羊的咩咩、马的嘶鸣、鸭的呷呷叫,统统各得其所。 2.人的区别性标志是手,人正是用它来干一切坏事的。 3.只有一种人是好的,那就是死人。 4.于是,《英格兰生灵》再也听不见了。诗人小不点儿谱写了另一首歌取而代之,它的...
評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...
評分和想象中的终极恐怖的《一九八四》不同,乔治·奥威尔的成名作《动物农场》则要生动直接得多,是对当时现实,尤其是苏联的深刻反映和辛辣讽刺,可谓一部另类的苏联历史(革命到二战末期)。 这部只有六万字的小说,我们可以非常清晰的把其中的角色和故事与苏联的各阶级群体与历...
評分豆瓣的好处,是让你重新认识到,读书是一件快乐的事。这是从心情上讲。 如果从技术上说,豆瓣可以让你知道,还有多少好书你没有读过。 原来我不知道乔治.奥威尔这个人,也不知道《动物庄园》、《1984》。但自从有了豆瓣,发现这个人、这两本书很受欢迎,尤其是在我的友邻之中...
The first English book I have read in 2016. Can be considered as concentrated 1984. The pigs are metaphor for CCP, the dogs for army and police, sheep for mouthpiece media, and horses for fool labour people. A great novel.
评分赤裸裸地影射Trotsky和Stalin
评分火車上讀完的 大傢應該都很熟悉瞭 甚至都已有親身體會瞭
评分沒想到這本書這麼短。還是很喜歡Orwell感情強烈的政治寓言。蘇聯垮瞭,天朝人民依然還在地裏辛勤勞作。
评分以動物喻人,有趣而一針見血的諷刺。短小精湛,耐人尋味。
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