Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted it. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire.Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes animales for the French translation, which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin for "bear", a symbol of Russia, and which recalled the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.
Orwell wrote the book from November 1943 to February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was regarded highly by the British people and intelligentsia, a circumstance that Orwell hated. It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers,including one of Orwell's own, Victor Gollancz. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.
Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
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大家将 Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 标注为
写于1945
最后人与猪同起同坐那真有点看反胃了。
眷養起來的狗
绝妙的讽刺,写得活灵活现。社会自有其共性,人类至今无法突破的怪圈。
对专制天才般的讥讽。
花了大概2h30min看完,当初是在豆瓣书籍top里随便挑了本名字看对眼的,所以我看的时候可以说就是裸看,一点前提都没看过。 本书讲述了动物们推翻人类统治后又复辟的剧情,可能是各种故事听太多了,导致我对书中的所有情节都感觉见怪不怪,所以整个过程中都没有什么强的情感点;但还是有让我感受很深的,其中最为重要的就是记录,如果没有真实的记录,记忆就会改变,当记忆被改变时,可以说人在某方面就已经变了,所以也让我意识到了这点,我也要开始拍照记录了(平时有写日记的习惯,虽然不是每天),不为什么,只是想要有真实的自己。噢,还有坚持初心,当然这初心得要是本质的,我的老师跟我说过:先定一个大目标,在追求的过程中,若感到此时就很不错的话,就可以停止追梦了。补充一点,故事是有趣的?至少我能没有任何压力的把它持续看完
好直白,更喜欢1984
大一时读的。这不是动物的庄园,而是对人类一切政治发展的缩影
充斥着隐喻与讽刺的一部童话故事,最后猪和人的同桌交流讽刺拉满
虽然我对奥维尔本人的政治观点有很大看法,但就这部作品来说,这确实是充满黑色幽默的反乌托邦佳作