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.
看了荣如德先生译的《动物农场》,这是第一次看荣先生的译作,而是我看的第6本《动物农场》译本。现在已经有了至少9种《动物农场》译本,除了个别译本,大都还不错。 看荣先生译作,感觉先生的中文功底很深,许多用词令我赞叹,不过译文也有白壁微暇的地方,看书时随便记下几...
评分 评分 评分这是我近年来读过的最觉得值得读的一本书。也是在知乎上的一个问题,你最相见恨晚的一本书,很多人提到了这本。 《动物庄园》写于1943年,但七十年过去了,书中的描述一样在天朝,在世界各国上演着~不能不说,这是一部伟大的著作。 动物们一起努力奋斗,打倒琼斯...
评分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...
sigh...看了心里不好受
评分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。
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。
评分以动物喻人,有趣而一针见血的讽刺。短小精湛,耐人寻味。
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