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Indlæser... Animal Farm: Centennial Edition (original 1945; udgave 2003)af George Orwell, Ann Patchett (Forord)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Orwell’s best work of fiction by some distance. It has the lightness of touch characteristic of his essays but otherwise absent from his novels. The narrative unfolds at a swift pace and with an organic inevitability. The characters are types, this is a fable after all, but Orwell uses his loyal carthorses, wise old donkeys and mindless sheep to moving effect. Animal Farm is short and brutal; unlike 1984, however, it leaves this reader feeling invigorated by Orwell’s artistry and clear-eyed vision, rather than bludgeoned into despair. Is it about the tragedy inevitably brought by revolution? Or the tragedy of revolution betrayed? I think both interpretations are valid, though it would be an odd reader who concluded that the animals were wrong to rebel against Mr Jones. Despite his socialism there were strong elements of fatalism and pessimism in Orwell and they find clear expression here. It is also a book which could only have been written by someone with a profound, almost anarchistic, scepticism towards authority and ideology in all their forms. Animal Farm was conceived as a book with a specific polemical purpose. Orwell wrote it to ‘expose the Soviet myth’: not to make the world safe for capitalism but to clear the way for genuine socialism. His timely intervention produced a work of timeless and universal relevance. Ultimately it isn’t about Soviet Russia. It speaks to our eternal need for liberation and how it is betrayed, not just by mendacious pigs, but our own misplaced faith in those who profess to lead us. Tilhører ForlagsserienArion Press (99) Biblioteca Folha (14) Blackbirds (1993.3) — 39 mere Clube de Literatura Clássica (CLC) (40.1 [August 2023]) Delfinserien (45) Destinolibro (23) Fischer Bücherei (216) Gallimard, Folio (1516) Grote ABC (126) Llibres a mà (7) Gli Oscar [Mondadori] (102) Penguin Audiobooks (PEN 252) Penguin Books (838) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2021) Penguin English Library, 2012 series (2018-06) Penguin Modern Classics (838) RBA Narrativa Actual (10) Signet Classics (CW1028) Stichting De Roos (155) Volk und Welt Spektrum (261) Áncora y Delfín (413) Indeholdt iHar tilpasningenEr forkortet iInspireretIndeholder studiedelHar kommentartekstIndeholder elevguideHas as a teacher's guideHæderspriserDistinctionsNotable Lists
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And while I can see the depiction of the Russian Revolution and it’s components within this story, I also think that these characters and scenarios can transcend the intended allegory. Meaning it’s contents can be applied to more than just the Russian Revolution and it’s leaders, but to any nation in which leadership is corrupt and all powerful.
Anyway, Orwell’s writing was good – I would have liked it to be a touch more smooth and easy reading like, and it is a short book but you get a lot of detail and development from the story and it’s characters.
I definitely recommend reading it, if not for the historical nature of it then for the unique portrayal of the ideas held within.
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