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“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” George Orwell is one of my favourite writers. 1984 and Animal Farm were game-changers for me when I first picked them up at 12 years old, and they fostered an interest in politics t Leggi tutto

This book is justly famous for its disillusioned account of how the Communist Party—in its eagerness to defeat Franco--betrayed the successful anarchist experiment in Catalonia for the sake of expedience, how it executed and imprisoned its anarchist and socialist comrades for the sake of a temporary Leggi tutto

و الكلمة الوحيدة التي لا يملك الغريب إلا أن يتعلمها هي كلمة "مانيانا" أي غدا و معناها الحرفي اليوم التالي. فإن كان بالمستطاع .. يؤجل عمل اليوم إلى المانيانا.أنا شوفت الكلام ده فين قبل كده  يتحدث في أحيان أخرى عن الكرم الأسباني و عن الشعور السوداء و العيون العربية و البشرة السمراء فأتذكر أننا يوما Leggi tutto

Many of my friends who formally study literature often say that Orwell might not be considered a top-tier literary figure. They argue that his works are too politically charged, overly serious, not entertaining, and often unsettling. The scenes in 1984 and the tragedies in Animal Farm seem to have o Leggi tutto

Page 127 the author states that while watching a “fat Russian” it was the first time that he had seen “ …a person whose profession was telling lies - unless one counts Journalists” I wonder what the sublimely brilliant writer of this observation, George Orwell, would think if he was seeing the accus Leggi tutto