| Titre : |
George Orwell : Animal Farm |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
DAVID DWAN, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Oxford University Press |
| Année de publication : |
2021. |
| Importance : |
97p. |
| Présentation : |
cov.col. |
| Format : |
19cm. |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-19-881373-6 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Tags : |
English , |
| Index. décimale : |
428.4 English reading( READING) |
| Résumé : |
When the animals depose their oppressor Mr Jones and install a socialist republic they find themselves 'happy as they had never conceived it possible to be'.But such happiness does not, and the ideal of equality is bent out of shape.The pigs get their trotters on power,and the murderous boar Napoleon soon has a pile of corpses before his feet.
In Animal Farm Orwell recorded his deep disillusionment with the USSR.As he wrote in 1947:'Animal farm is intended as a satire on dictatorship in general, but , of course, the Russian Revolution is the chief target.It is humbug to pretend anything else'.By castings things as a fable or fairy tale, Orwell's satire travels well beyond Bolshevism.Animal Farm forces us to consider what the good society shold look like, why it continues to be so elusive,and why we live in world in which some animals remain more unequal than others.
In this new edition David Dwan presents the novel in the broader context of Orwell's critique of the Soviet stste,setting out the political circumstances, publishing history,and initial reception of Orwell's fable. |
George Orwell : Animal Farm [texte imprimé] / DAVID DWAN, Auteur . - Oxford University Press, 2021. . - 97p. : cov.col. ; 19cm. ISBN : 978-0-19-881373-6 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Tags : |
English , |
| Index. décimale : |
428.4 English reading( READING) |
| Résumé : |
When the animals depose their oppressor Mr Jones and install a socialist republic they find themselves 'happy as they had never conceived it possible to be'.But such happiness does not, and the ideal of equality is bent out of shape.The pigs get their trotters on power,and the murderous boar Napoleon soon has a pile of corpses before his feet.
In Animal Farm Orwell recorded his deep disillusionment with the USSR.As he wrote in 1947:'Animal farm is intended as a satire on dictatorship in general, but , of course, the Russian Revolution is the chief target.It is humbug to pretend anything else'.By castings things as a fable or fairy tale, Orwell's satire travels well beyond Bolshevism.Animal Farm forces us to consider what the good society shold look like, why it continues to be so elusive,and why we live in world in which some animals remain more unequal than others.
In this new edition David Dwan presents the novel in the broader context of Orwell's critique of the Soviet stste,setting out the political circumstances, publishing history,and initial reception of Orwell's fable. |
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