Homage to Catalonia
'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: To fight against Fascism, and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: Common decency.'Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience of being shot, and his painful and disorientating medical treatment all contribute to the book's gripping immediacy.At the same time, Orwell was aware that he was producing a work of art: 'Bewar…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-257539-5
- EAN: 9780192575395
- Produktnummer: 35522093
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'359 KB
Über den Autor
Lisa Mullen is Teaching Associate in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film, and a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies at Downing College. Her books include Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2019) and Orwell Unwell: Pathology and the Medical Imaginary in the Fiction and Journalism of George Orwell(forthcoming).
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