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Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia
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  • This follows the original text of the 1938 first edition, amended to conform with Orwell's 'Errata to Homage to Catalonia', which he compiled in 1949.
  • The introduction develops the argument that Homage to Catalonia transcends its contested status as history and demands to be read on its own terms as a work of literature by a writer at the height of his powers.
  • By examining Homage to Catalonia, not just as a historic piece of reportage, but as an aesthetic response to the rise of fascism and post-truth propaganda, this new edition emphasises its powerful influence on Orwell's greatest works of fiction.

  
'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."'
  
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's account of the Spanish Civil War. It was the last and most mature of Orwell's documentary books and it is a sharp, focused and angry account of the fighting in Spain. The discomforts of trench warfare, his near-death experience of being shot, and his painful and disorientating medical treatment all contribute to the book's gripping immediacy.
  
At the same time, Orwell was aware that he was producing a work of art: 'Beware of my partisanship,' he warns his readers, 'my mistakes of fact, and the distortion inevitably caused by my having seen only one corner of events.'
  
Lisa Mullen's introduction examines how the book straddles the divide between literature and history, and provides readers and students with a concise explanatory account of the controversies which have grown up around the book since its publication.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology
Homage to Catalonia
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

George Orwell
Edited by Lisa Mullen, Teaching Associate in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film, and a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies, Downing College, Cambridge
  
Lisa Mullen is Teaching Associate in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Film, and a Bye Fellow and Director of Studies at Downing College. Her books include Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War (Manchester University Press, 2019) and Orwell Unwell: Pathology and the Medical Imaginary in the Fiction and Journalism of George Orwell (forthcoming).

Product details

ISBN : 9780198838418

Author: 
George Orwell; Lisa Mullen
Pages
256 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jan 2021
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia