Animal Farm: A Fairy Story

  • 中文名: 动物庄园
  • 别名: 一脸猪相
  • 动物农场
  • 动物农庄
  • Animal Farm
  • 出版社: Harvill Secker
  • 发售日: 1945-08-17
  • 页数: 112
  • 作者: George Orwell

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Animal Farm is an allegorical and dystopian novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalin era in the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), he wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he had tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".

The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, though the subtitle was dropped by U.S. publishers for its 1946 publication and subsequently all but one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime omitted it. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire.Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes animales for the French translation, which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin for "bear", a symbol of Russia, and which recalled the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.

Orwell wrote the book from November 1943 to February 1944, when the wartime alliance with the Soviet Union was at its height and Stalin was regarded highly by the British people and intelligentsia, a circumstance that Orwell hated. It was initially rejected by a number of British and American publishers,including one of Orwell's own, Victor Gollancz. Its publication was thus delayed, though it became a great commercial success when it did finally appear partly because the Cold War so quickly followed World War II.

Time magazine chose the book as one of the 100 best English-language novels (1923 to 2005); it also featured at number 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels. It won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996, and is also included in the Great Books of the Western World selection.
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《动物庄园》是在抹黑苏联吗

by Buryat 2023-1-3 18:00 (+1)
前提:一千个读者有一千个哈姆雷特! 作为一部反乌托邦的名著,《动物庄园》无疑是成功的,但也因此招致了很多批评。就像很多人说的那样,动物庄园很大程度上是对苏联的投影,存在过贬的问题。还有的人把它上升到立场高度,认为这是买办资产阶级对康米的抹黑作品。但我们应 ... (more)

齐泽克论奥威尔

by CityLight 2021-1-23 09:49 (+2)
奥威尔在小说中描述了斯大林主义下的反乌托邦社会,里面讲的是政治高压和意识控制。这些书在不少前共产主义国家被封杀,其实完全没有必要,因为奥威尔对斯大林的理解很幼稚,他本人对集权社会的分析根本不得要领。他天真地以为前苏联真的有那么严密的国家机器来控制人 ... (more)

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性感的痕迹d @ 2023-3-14 16:46

知道这段历史的我看得很乐,斯畜看了怕是要急得跳脚。

小夭青落 @ 2023-2-22 15:53

zz压力有这么大吗,大到人已经不敢从书中反思警醒了,本杰明所说确实道出了历史规律,人类生活确实在变好,但有些东西是不会变的

不聪明的亚子 @ 2023-2-15 18:10

要分清哪张脸是猪的,哪张脸是人的,已经不可能了。

天真的和感伤的Nick @ 2023-2-12 23:14

你们有你们的低级动物需要对付,我们有我们的下层阶级需要摆平。如此辛辣,如此尖刻。私以为比1984略胜一筹。

三位一体蒙哥汗 @ 2022-12-11 14:38

至少比来自新世界要好

东到海 @ 2022-12-10 11:35

总体上四星的水平,比起1984,此书风格是较为轻松的寓言,因此较1984压抑奇幻的黑暗风格,少了一丝渲染,此是第一让我不太喜欢的地方。第二是此书较1984政治隐喻更加过分,几乎可以找到真实事件,而其中有一些作者掺杂了私货和不妥当的地方,是我第二不大喜欢的地方。而1984描绘的是一个世界观更为宏大的设定,因此没有那么多不适。而以上两点使本书虽然内涵没比1984低出不少,但观赏性和艺术性有所大大下降。

AsTrayveller @ 2022-12-7 19:47

影射太明显反而无趣

祈雨 @ 2022-10-15 13:57

这部毕竟比较偏向戏谑,和1984不能比,乔治其人是比较极端的社会主义者了

天魔传人 @ 2022-10-12 14:38

非常好作品,讽刺了美国。爱来自越南

D23333 @ 2022-10-11 22:50

最有趣的是你可以在B站看到有人说这本书是在说米国。

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