乔治·奥威尔：在鲸腹中（Pushkin收藏系列） 英文原版 Inside the Whale : On Writers and Writing George Orwell

基本信息

Format Paperback | 208 pages

Dimensions 120 x 165 x 17mm | 188g

Publication date 07 Jan 2021

Publisher Pushkin Press

Language English

ISBN10 1782276750

ISBN13 9781782276753

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

乔治•奥威尔除了小说创作外，还有一个重要的身份是书评家。本书是奥威尔的文学评论集，收录了知名的《我为什么写作》《一个书评家的自白》等及关于亨利•米勒、莎士比亚、吉卜林、马克•吐温、甘地、丘吉尔等作家、作品的评论。奥威尔的文学评论行文流畅、观点独特犀利，他因此被誉为文体作家。

Unfailingly elegant and endlessly relevant, the four essays in this collection treat literature as a vital record of our political hypocrisies, our social failings, and the ennobling limits of our ideological aspirations. Delving into the literary canon, George Orwell encounters dusty classics and lesser-known works of literature on his own exhilarating terms. The novels of Henry Miller lead him inside the belly of Jonah's whale, an imagined refuge in a time of total war. A trenchant investigation of Charles Dickens unfolds into a poignant portrait of nineteenth-century liberalism. A minor pamphlet on Shakespeare by Tolstoy provokes a stirring evocation of humanism and the excessive vitality of life. A series of singularly thrilling reading experiences, they celebrate Orwell's engagement with the world of writers and literature.

作者简介

乔治·奥威尔(George Orwell，1903—1950)，英国记者、小说家、散文家和评论家。

1903年生于印度，在英国成长。少年时入读知名的伊顿公学，毕业后因成绩一般、家境不富裕无力攻读大学，考取了公务员，被派到缅甸任警察。1927年辞去公职回到伦敦，开始从事文学创作。二战中，在英国广播公司（BBC）从事宣传工作。后来又从事专栏书评写作。1950年死于肺病。

乔治·奥威尔一生短暂，但他以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，做出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为“一代人的冷峻良知”。代表作有《动物农庄》和《一九八四》等。

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, was a novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. He served as an Imperial Police Officer in Myanmar (formerly Burma), lived in near-destitution in Paris and fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. His powerful explorations, in both novels and essays, of totalitarianism and fascism firmly established the adjective 'Orwellian' in the English language.