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
细思恐极!预言家!保护!早点缓存!且看且珍惜!爆!哈人!如果一个B站的视频底下是这样的评论,那么它多半是搞笑的;但如果是七十九年前的文学作品,那含金量立刻上涨,陈词滥调马上就变成了先知箴言。唉,二十一世纪;唉,娱乐至死。另外,笑点解析:这本书在“两只脚”那一边是“七诫”之一。
奉为圭臬大可不必,乔治奥威尔也是一只给我们“演讲的猪”,动物庄园也只是可以被修改的“七诫”。任何观点都可以是幼稚的,核心在于“谁在讲人们就会相信谁”
hh乔治奥维尔做梦也没想到他写的书成真了。
我不好说我擦
补标 电子辞典上看的,印象很深。
读完不寒而栗
高三时译本和原版都读了一遍
到最后人与猪的脸已经完全分不清了
太阳底下无新事,驴子的寿命很长。同一本看的一九八四更是精彩到让我沉默不语。
作者讨厌拿破仑,乐