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The bottom line is that this book is simply extremely well, engagingly well, written. Despite the trauma of not being able to afford any food at some points for days, sentiment is not laid on thick, he just tells it as it is. The chapter about Charlie it's particularly worrying though. Almost like a scene from a horror film. Orwell is now (where I'm up to) working in a cellar under a cellar, furnaces aplenty.

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"Working men 'work', beggars do not 'work' ; they are parasites, worthless in their very nature. It is taken for granted that a beggar does not 'earn' his living, as a bricklayer or a literary critic 'earns' his. He is a mere social excrescence, tolerated because we live in a humane age, but essentially despicable."

Bozo is the best side character so far in the book! Enlightening, how a penniless man living on the streets can have far more insight, knowledge and principle than your average well-off middle class fellow.

Brutally beautifully honest

I should start speed reading this.

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“onun insanlığını yok eden, doğuştan gelen bir karakter bozukluğu değil, yetersiz beslenmeydi.”

I honestly did not need to know that much information on how disgusting restaurants were in Paris during this time...

So gross, but so good! 😭

تنها از یک راه میشود از نویسندگی پول دربیاوری، با دختر یک ناشر ازدواج کنی

Lots of trivial details & in depth descriptions. Non fiction so can’t fault it really for lack of plot but preferred reading about his time in London & some great writing towards the end. Took me ages to read tho then 100 pages in the last 2 days. Started off like a 1/2 ended as a 3 maybe

'It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.'

Débrouillard is what every plongeur wants to be called. A débrouillard is a man who, even when he is told to do the impossible, will se débrouiller—get it done somehow.

And yet the plongeurs, low as they are, also have a kind of pride. It is the pride of the drudge—the man who is equal to no matter what quantity of work. At that level, the mere power to go on working like an ox is about the only virtue attainable.

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.

You have thought so much about poverty—it is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it, is all so utterly and prosaically different. You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring.

Six francs is a shilling, and you can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.

The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

quite interesting

Orwell is great at painting a picture. In 1984 it is of a dystopia, in Homage to Catalonia it is of mid-Civil War Catalonia, and in this book it is the slums of Paris. I love it.

Really good for first Novel it's a petty the people like George Orwell must go through utter poverty to shine as a writer.

1984'dən daha tox kitabdır bu.