4.6
Fantasy & SciFi
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of 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), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
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4.6
Fantasy & SciFi
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of 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), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
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Isak
21 aug. 2022
Lika aktuell idag som den dag den skrevs.
Andrea
8 maj 2022
Fantastiskt bra metafor om det som fortfarande pågår i vårt samhälle
Calle
9 juli 2023
En klassiker.
Joakim
11 maj 2022
Rolig 😂
Zina
7 juni 2022
Beste boken jeg har lest på lenge.
annie
6 aug. 2021
En klassiker som fortfarande är lika aktuell.
Izabelle
13 dec. 2021
Sjukt intressant.
Emilie
21 nov. 2023
Briljant läsning! Orwell sätter pricksäkert fingret på precis det som han iakttog i världen när han skrev boken; både kapitalistiska UK och USA hånade öppet idéen om kommunism som dom såg i USSR, samtidigt som dom i hemlighet var livrädda. Dom var oerhört oroliga för att deras egna medborgare skulle "få idéer", gå ihop och göra revolt i kommunismens namn vilket skulle riskera kapitalisternas enväldiga grepp om makten. Precis som de andra bönderna öppet hånade Animal Farm fast de i hemlighet fruktade för sina egna enterprises och i synnerhet sin egen makt över "sina" djur och arbetare. Det är av stor vikt för styrande kapitalister att hålla ett hårt grepp om maskineriets allra viktigaste kugghjul - arbetarna. Om de får för sig att ifrågasätta hur saker funkar, vem som har rätt till makt/frihet/ledighet/störst matransoner - kan det ifrågasättandet sprida sig och kapitalisterna vet att dom är färre & deras arbetare är fler...
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