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[4.5] (I listened to the UK audiobook read by Jeremy Northam.)
How else could this have been written? The central narrative of Homage to Catalonia was like glimpsing a platonic ideal of non-fiction reportage: the definitive, the default - which must be because Orwell has become an (the?) exemplar of good English style, filtered into countless other things I've read, from books to below-the-line newspaper comments. (Sometimes I can see the lineage: a friend whose writing sometimes sounds like Hitc ...more
How else could this have been written? The central narrative of Homage to Catalonia was like glimpsing a platonic ideal of non-fiction reportage: the definitive, the default - which must be because Orwell has become an (the?) exemplar of good English style, filtered into countless other things I've read, from books to below-the-line newspaper comments. (Sometimes I can see the lineage: a friend whose writing sometimes sounds like Hitc ...more
Me es imposible no dar una opinión sesgada de este libro porque adoro a George Orwell y para mí todo lo que él ha escrito es una maravilla y debería ser ley que todo el mundo lea al menos 2 libros de Orwell en sus vidas.
Pero retomando el tema, Homenaje a Cataluña no sólo describe las vicisitudes que pasan Orwell y sus compañeros de las milicias del POUM en el frente de Aragón durante la Guerra Civil Española (tema del que por cierto sabía muy poco hasta que leí esta libro)sino que también descri ...more
Pero retomando el tema, Homenaje a Cataluña no sólo describe las vicisitudes que pasan Orwell y sus compañeros de las milicias del POUM en el frente de Aragón durante la Guerra Civil Española (tema del que por cierto sabía muy poco hasta que leí esta libro)sino que también descri ...more
An utterly fascinating account of the Spanish Civil War
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