Rebeli n en la granja / Animal Farm

by George Orwell

Overview

A través de una fábula, Orwell expone de forma magistral los horrores de los regímenes totalitarios.

Uno de los alegatos más potentes contra el totalitarismo de cualquier especie.

Cansados de sufrir abusos, los animales de la granja de los Jones deciden rebelarse contra sus amos. Tras echar al propietario, establecen un nuevo orden basado en la igualdad. Sin embargo, pronto surge entre ellos una nueva clase de burócratas, los cerdos, que, con astucia, codicia y prepotencia se imponen sobre el resto de animales.

Concebida como una sátira mordaz del estalinismo, el carácter universal de su mensaje convierte esta novela en un extraordinario análisis de la corrupción que engendra el poder, una furibunda diatriba contra los totalitarismos y un lúcido examen de las manipulaciones que sufre la verdad histórica en los momentos de transformación política.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Through a fable, Orwell masterfully exposes the horrors of totalitarian regimes.

One of the most powerful arguments against totalitarianism of any kind.

Tired of being abused, the animals on the Jones' farm decide to rebel against their masters. After the owner is kicked out, they establish a new order based on equality. However, a new class of bureaucrats soon emerges among them, the pigs, who, with cunning, greed and arrogance, impose themselves on the rest of the animals.

Conceived as a scathing satire of Stalinism, the universal nature of its message makes this novel an extraordinary analysis of the corruption that power engenders, a furious diatribe against totalitarianism, and a lucid examination of the manipulations that historical truth undergoes in moments of political transformation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786070777240
Publisher:	Planeta Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	07/30/2024
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.40(h) x (d)
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Eric Arthur Blair, más conocido por su seudónimo George Orwell, nació en India, estudió en Eton College y prestó sus servicios en la Policía Imperial. Estuvo destinado en Birmania de 1922 a 1927. Vivió varios años en la pobreza, primero en París y más tarde en Londres. Como resultado de esta experiencia escribió Sin blanca en París y Londres (1933), donde relata las sórdidas condiciones de vida de las personas sin hogar. Días en Birmania (1934), un feroz ataque contra el imperialismo, es también, en gran medida, una obra autobiográfica. En 1936 Orwell luchó en el ejército republicano durante la Guerra Civil española. El autor describe su experiencia en Homenaje a Catalunya (1938), uno de los relatos más conmovedores escritos sobre esta guerra y en el que se hace responsable al Partido Comunista Español y a la Unión Soviética del triunfo de la Falange. El camino a Wigan Pier (1937), es una crónica desgarradora sobre la vida de los mineros sin trabajo en el norte de Inglaterra. Su condena de la sociedad totalitaria queda brillantemente plasmada en una fábula, Rebelión en la granja (1945), basada en la traición de Stalin a la Revolución Rusa, así como en la novela 1984 (1949). Esta última ofrece una descripción aterradora de la vida bajo la vigilancia constante del Gran Hermano. Cabe citar entre otros escritos, la novela Que vuele la aspidistra (1936) y Disparando al elefante y otros ensayos (1950), ambas consideradas modelos de prosa descriptiva, y Así fueron las alegrías (1953), un recuerdo de sus difíciles años de estudiante.

George Orwell is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime. They include Why I Write and Politics and the English Language. His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the world.

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there.

His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. Animal Farm (1945) is recognised as a classic of modern political satire and is simultaneously an engaging story and convincing allegory. It was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which finally brought him world-wide fame. Nineteen Eighty-Four's ominous depiction of a repressive, totalitarian regime shocked contemporary readers, but ensures that the book remains perhaps the preeminent dystopian novel of modern literature.

Orwell's fiercely moral writing has consistently struck a chord with each passing generation. The intense honesty and insight of his essays and non-fiction made Orwell one of the foremost social commentators of his age. Added to this, his ability to construct elaborately imaginative fictional worlds, which he imbued with this acute sense of morality, has undoubtedly assured his contemporary and future relevance.