上来透口气（牛津世界经典系列） 英文原版 Coming Up for Air George Orwell

基本信息

Format Paperback | 256 pages

Dimensions 128 x 196 x 15mm | 190g

Publication date 15 Aug 2022

Publisher Oxford University Press

Language English

ISBN10 0198804814

ISBN13 9780198804819

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

在战争之前! 我想知道，我们还要这样说多久？还有多久，答案将是 "哪场战争"？

第二次世界大战的临近使郊区的保险代理人乔治-鲍林陷入了反思之中。当他回想起他在爱德华时代的那个平静的牛津郡村庄时，他遗憾地思考着从那时起英国发生了什么，从他参加的一战，到现代伦敦似乎不可避免的金钱掠夺和日常生活的机械化。一笔幸运的意外之财使鲍林得以秘密返回他的田园出生地：这是一个令人振奋的喘息机会。

他希望能在一个濒临战争的现代城市的生活斗争中得到强化。但是，真的有可能回去吗？

1939年出版的《上来透口气》是奥威尔早期现实主义小说中有成就的一部，为奥威尔作为文化批评家的独特思维的发展提供了启示。这部小说探讨了奥威尔后来在《1984》中重现的许多主题：怀旧、记忆和面对现代性弊端的幻灭，包括工业化、资本主义剥削和无休止的战争。

Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?'

The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite,

he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back?

Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell's early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell's distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.

作者简介

埃里克-阿瑟-布莱尔（1903年6月25日-1950年1月21日），笔名乔治-奥威尔，是一位英国小说家、散文家、记者和评论家。他的作品以清晰的散文、社会批评、反对极权主义和支持民主社会主义为特点。

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.