Name: Matar a un Elefante y Otros Escritos (in Spanish)
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Author: George Orwell
ISBN: 9788418428760

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Matar a un Elefante y Otros Escritos (in Spanish)

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Physical Book

Author

George Orwell

Publisher

Turner

Synopsis "Matar a un Elefante y Otros Escritos (in Spanish)"

Este volumen es, por un lado, un acercamiento inmejorable para comprender la dimensión política de Orwell, su compromiso con la verdad, por más incómoda que resulte a sus adversarios, pero también a sus partidarios; y, por el otro, una mirada al lado más íntimo y frágil de su personalidad, con una selección de sus diarios escritos bajo la presión de las bombas alemanas entre 1940 y 1942. El libro incluye algunos ensayos clásicos de Orwell, como “La política y la lengua inglesa”, “Recuerdos de la Guerra Civil española” y el ensayo anticolonialista que le da título “Matar a un elefante”. Además, presenta las reseñas de algunos libros que publicados en su tiempo luego se volverían clásicos, como Camino de servidumbre de Hayek o Su mejor hora, el segundo volumen de las memorias de Churchill sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Bajo el epígrafe A mi antojo, Orwell publicaba semanalmente para el Tribune una columna periodística, con su inconfundible sello de ironía y libertad, de la que se recoge una generosa selección. El volumen cuenta además con el prólogo del punzante periodista Arcadi Espada.

George Orwell

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Eric Arthur Blair (Motihari, British Raj, June 25, 1903-London, United Kingdom, January 21, 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was a British novelist, journalist, essayist, and critic born in India, author among other works of the dystopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949)

His work bears the mark of autobiographical experiences lived by the author in three stages of his life: his position against British imperialism which led him to commit as a representative of the colonial law enforcement forces in Burma during his youth; in favor of democratic socialism, after having observed and suffered the living conditions of the working social classes in London and Paris; and against Nazi and Stalinist totalitarianisms after his participation in the Spanish Civil War, on the Republican side

In addition to being a chronicler, literary critic, and novelist, he is one of the most prominent essayists in the English language of the 1930s and 1940s. He is also known for his criticisms of totalitarianism in his allegorical short novel Animal Farm (1945) and his dystopian novel 1984 (1949), written in his last years of life and published shortly before his death, in which he creates the concept of "Big Brother," which has since entered the common language of criticism of modern surveillance techniques.

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