书籍介绍
这并非一本供你收藏的“文学名著”，而是一个人把思考的过程原封不动地摊开给你看。奥威尔自己说，严肃写作不是去“生产作品”，而是为了揭穿某种谎言、让被忽视的事实被人看见；他更直言，声称“艺术与政治无关”本身就是一种政治立场。因此书中最耐读的，恰恰是他如何在“说真话”与“写得好看”之间较劲——既要敢言，又不愿牺牲文字的美感与智性的诚实。读者反复提起的，是他在缅甸的回忆、做流浪汉与书店打工者的经历，以及对狄更斯、托尔斯泰、莎翁的犀利点评。它适合那些不愿被结论喂饱、想看清一个清醒头脑如何自我较量的读者；若你期待轻松闲谈，这里只有毫不妥协的锋利。
作者简介
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.
AI导读
核心看点
- 奥威尔散文集，展现其独特文风与政治思考
- 揭露谎言与偏见，将政治写作提升为艺术
- 涵盖西班牙内战、文学评论及底层生活观察
读者共识
- 文笔犀利透彻，兼具愤怒与细腻，令人震撼
- 奥威尔形象更丰富，不仅是反乌托邦小说家
- 敢言真话，平易近人，是值得一读再读的经典
精彩摘录
- "The Spanish war and other events in 1936-7 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since1936 has been written, dirctly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understood it. It seems to me nonsense, in a p"
- "When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, "I'm going to produce a work of art." I write it because there is some lie I want to expose, some facts I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."
- "But I could not do the work of writing a book, or a long magzine article, if it were not also an aesthetic experience."
- "No book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to de with politics is itself a political attitude."
- "Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
- "The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition — in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all — and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery. But there is also the minor"
- "When I was about sixteen I suddenly discovered the joy of mere words, i.e. the sounds and associations of words. The lines from Paradise Lost, So hee with difficulty and labour hard Moved on: with difficulty and labour hee, which do not seem to me so very wonderful, sent shivers down my backbone; an"
- "The aesthetic motive is very feeble in a lot of writers, but even a pamphleteer or a writer of textbooks will have pet words and phrases which appeal to him for non-utilitarian reasons; or he may feel strongly about typography, width of margins, etc."
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e b white, t s eliot and george orwell乃散文三巨头也
在寫不出東西，或者憎惡自己文句的時候，讀上兩篇，立刻能夠找到文思。英文散文範本。
"Such,Such Were the Joys" - the scars of a 8-year-old who went to a snobbish boarding school are still raw after so many years. This collec
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无条件喜欢Orwell
奥威尔的文笔真是好啊。
写作态度一种。回忆文字和议论性文字难分轩轾，Inside the Whale、Shooting an Elephant、托尔斯泰论莎士比亚、回忆boarding school生活几篇都很有看头；但或许，对奥威尔而言，本不存在超越时间性的议论，也鲜少有与政治倾向截然二分的文学。读奥威尔，除了可以体会到他自己写作时强烈的“四十年代”感之外，也可以觉察到他本人对其议论对象所属时代的洞察力。站在四十年代回看Roaring Twenties和山雨欲来的三十年代，奥威尔对于同一年代背景下作家群体特质的把握令人击节。
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