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Animal Farm de George Orwell

Animal Farm: The Penguin English Library

Autor George Orwell
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 iun 2018

Notăm cu un interes profund modul în care fragilitatea idealurilor este disecată în Animal Farm. Miza psihologică nu rezidă doar în revolta împotriva opresiunii, ci în transformarea insidioasă a eliberatorului în tiran. Prin această fabulă, George Orwell ne invită să observăm cum speranța pură a unei comunități egalitare este coruptă, capitol cu capitol, de setea de putere. Considerăm că forța acestui text stă în simplitatea sa tăioasă: ceea ce începe ca o „poveste cu zâne” (A Fairy Story) devine o cronică a trădării politice. Subliniem faptul că structura celor zece capitole oglindește perfect degradarea limbajului și a memoriei colective, de la proclamarea celor șapte porunci până la faimoasa și tragica lor distorsionare finală. În tradiția lui Jonathan Swift, acest roman continuă satira socială mușcătoare, însă o reimaginează prin prisma experiențelor personale ale lui Orwell din Războiul Civil Spaniol. Dacă în 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four autorul explorează supravegherea tehnologică și controlul absolut, în Animal Farm el se concentrează pe mecanismele retorice și pe manipularea maselor. Spre deosebire de realismul dur din Down and Out in Paris and London, aici adevărul este livrat prin lentila alegoriei, făcând critica totalitarismului nu doar accesibilă, ci universal valabilă. Ritmul este alert, susținut de o proză de o claritate rară, care nu lasă loc de ambiguitate în fața injustiției.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241341667
ISBN-10: 0241341663
Pagini: 108
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria The Penguin English Library

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Ina Fabian a dat nota:

This book is a metaphoric and hilarious perspective of communism developed in a farm, where each animal represents the government and its leaders, but also people of a community. The story illustrates so well the principles of communism, how it was applied in the animal community and their reaction and mentality about it. There were two sides: those who were afraid to speak up and those who were not smart enough to know the difference between right or wrong. Moreover, I couldn’t resist compare it to real life, how a lider can influence a community and that actions can be told in a way to hide the truth. It was a pleasure reading this book, even though I postponed reading it for years. It’s a quick, fast-paced book, I highly recommend it!

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Recomandăm această ediție Collins Classics oricărui cititor care dorește să înțeleagă mecanismele puterii și ale propagandei. Este o lectură esențială pentru a descifra istoria modernă, oferind instrumente critice pentru a recunoaște retorica manipulatoare. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care limbajul poate fi folosit pentru a rescrie adevărul, totul într-un format compact și memorabil.

Despre autor

Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), cunoscut sub pseudonimul George Orwell, a fost un romancier, eseist și critic britanic a cărui operă a definit termenul „orwellian”. Marcat de experiențele sale ca ofițer de poliție în Birmania și de participarea la Războiul Civil Spaniol, Orwell a devenit una dintre cele mai lucide voci împotriva totalitarismului. Angajamentul său față de socialismul democratic și pasiunea pentru claritatea limbajului au transformat scrierile sale, precum Animal Farm și 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four, în repere fundamentale ale culturii politice și literare din secolul XX, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți cronicari ai culturii engleze.

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'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others'

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.

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In 1943, there was an urgent need for Animal Farm. The Soviet Union had become Britain's ally in the war against Nazi Germany, and criticism of Stalin's brutal regime was either censored or discouraged. In any case, many intellectuals on the left still celebrated the Soviet Union, claiming that the terrors of its show trials, summary executions and secret police were either exaggerated or necessary.

But, to Orwell, Stalin was always a "disgusting murderer" and he wanted to remind people of this fact in a powerful and memorable way. But how to do it? A political essay would never reach a wide enough audience; a traditional novel would take too long to write. Orwell hit on the inspired idea of combining the moralism of the traditional 'beast fable' with the satire of Gulliver's Travels.

A group of farmyard animals, led by the pigs, overthrow their human masters. Their revolution is inspired by high ideals: the farm will be run in the interests of its animals with no more slaughtering, plenty of food for all and comfort in retirement. But when Napoleon the pig takes command, he quickly corrupts their principles, creating a new tyranny worse than the old.

Orwell wrote Animal Farm in the middle of the Second World War, but at first no publishers wanted to touch it. It was finally published in August 1945, once the war was over. This little book quickly became a seminal text in the emerging 'cold war' (a phrase that Orwell himself coined).

It also became a site of that conflict itself, suffering various attempts to subvert or change its meaning. Today, Animal Farm remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages. Our edition also includes the following essays: Shooting an Elephant; Charles Dickens; Inside the Whale; The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda; Literature and Totalitarianism; Fascism and Democracy; Patriots and Revolutionaries; Catastrophic Gradualism; Some Thoughts on the Common Toad; Why I Write; Writers and Leviathan.
 

Cuprins

Animal Farm. A Fairy Story Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Editorische Notiz Literaturhinweise Nachwort

Notă biografică

George Orwell wurde als Eric Arthur Blair am 25. Juni 1903 in Motihari in Britisch-Indien geboren und starb am 21. Januar 1950 in London. Er war ein englischer Schriftsteller und Journalist.

Orwell wuchs als zweites von drei Kindern eines Kolonialbeamten ab seinem zweiten Lebensjahr in England auf. Seine Mutter war mit den Kindern, jedoch ohne den Vater, von Indien nach England zurückgekehrt. Über seinen Internatsbesuch und die damit verbundenen schlechten Erlebnisse schrieb Orwell später das Essay mit dem ironischen Titel "Such, Such Were the Joys". Später ging er auf das renommierte Eton College, für das er aufgrund seiner Leistungen ein Stipendium erhielt.

1924 trat Orwell freiwillig in den Dienst der Indian Imperial Police in Burma. Da er mit deren Methoden jedoch nicht einverstanden war, legte er 1927 sein Amt nieder und widmete sich dem Schreiben. Während seiner Jahre in London und Paris musste er sich mit Hilfsjobs durchschlagen und war zeitweise obdachlos. Seine Erfahrungen verarbeitete er in seinem Romandebüt "Down and Out in Paris and London" 1933.

1936 heiratete Orwell und zog auf Seiten der Marxistischen Arbeiterpartei in den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Verwundet kehrte er ein Jahr später wieder zurück und arbeitete als Buchkritiker und Kriegsberichterstatter. Eines seiner wichtigsten Werke, die Fabel "Animal Farm", erschien 1945. Im selben Jahr verstarb seine Frau.

1947 zog Orwell an die Westküste Schottlands in die Einsamkeit, wo er mit der Dystopie "Nineteen Eighty-Four" über den totalitären Überwachungsstaat sein bekanntestes Werk verfasste. 1950 heiratete er, bereits schwer an Tuberkulose erkrankt, in einem Londoner Krankenhaus ein zweites Mal und verstarb dort wenige Monate später, am 21. Januar 1950, im Alter von 46 Jahren.

Recenzii

“Animal Farm remains our great satire on the darker face of modern history.” –Malcolm Bradbury

“As lucid as glass and quite as sharp…[Animal Farm] has the double meaning, the sharp edge, and the lucidity of Swift.” –Atlantic Monthly

“A wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable for our times.” –New York Times

“Orwell has worked out his theme with a simplicity, a wit, and a dryness that are close to La Fontaine and Gay, and has written in a prose so plain and spare, so admirably proportioned to his purpose, that Animal Farm even seems very creditable if we compare it with Voltaire and Swift.” –Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker

“Orwell’s satire here is amply broad, cleverly conceived, and delightfully written.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“The book for everyone and Everyman, its brightness undimmed after fifty years.” –Ruth Rendell

With an Introduction by Julian Symons

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A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they embark on the creation of a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned -- a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published fifty years ago, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner; the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell's masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.