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Gli animali della fattoria Manor decidono di ribellarsi al padrone e di instaurare una loro democrazia. I maiali Napoleon e Snowball capeggiano la rivoluzione che pero ben presto degenera. Infatti Napoleon, dopo aver bandito Snowball, introduce una nuova costituzione: "Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono piu uguali degli altri". La dittatura e la repressione fanno riappacificare gli animali con gli uomini che ormai non appaiono piu agli exrivoluzionari molto diversi da loro.

Imaxinas unha sociedade na que o goberno che impoña como vestir, que nova lingua falar, como actuar, como pensar? En 1984 esa sociedade existe, chámase Oceanía e comparte o dominio da Terra con outras duas superpotencias coas que adoita estar en guerra alternativamente: Eurasia e Oriasia. Londres e a principal cidade da Aeropista Un e na sua cerna esta instalado o centro do poder do estado totalitario liderado polo Irman Grande, ser omnisciente que controla a vida social e privada dos cidadans grazas a un sistema de telepantallas instaladas por todas as partes. Ilustracion de portada: Adria Fruitos

"1984 - the novel marking the end of communism." George Orwells 1984 revolves around Winston Smith, an office worker who performs censorship duties in Oceanias Ministry of Truth as a small cog in the wheel of a monstrous state apparatus. For years, doubts have been gnawing at him about the legitimacy of the system in which even a blink of the eye can cost him his life. The novel begins with the first step towards putting this initially purely intellectual resistance into action: Winston opens a diary. He subsequently falls in love with a young female colleague, and together they begin a love affair that, in the dictatorship that invades every aspect of life, is in itself an act of high treason. Even though they have different views on the society they live in, they are united by the rejection of its narrow moral corset and the desire for individual freedom and, not least, a right to love and feel. While Winston understands HOW the machinery of tyranny works, he does not understand WHY the massive effort of its surveillance and repressive apparatus is undertaken. When they decide to seek contact with the underground opposition and eventually end up in the hands of the repression apparatus of the state, Winston learns the true background of Oceanias society. Until his death, George Orwell was a convinced socialist - all the greater was the effect his work, published in 1949, had on the political left of the time. On the political left, the Soviet Union was seen as the realisation of Marxs ideas, the workers paradise that would free the enslaved masses from their shackles. Orwell was one of the few leftists of his time who dared to shake this narrative. Under the impression of the undeniable terror of Stalinist rule and its cynical, opportunistic cooperation with fascist and capitalist foreign countries, he criticised the hypocrisy and inhumanities of the real communism with Animal Farm and 1984.

A través de una historia intrincada, con temas como el lavado de cerebro, el lenguaje, la psicología y la inventiva encaminados al control físico y mental de todos los individuos, la educación totalitaria de la juventud, etcetera, Orwell relata la historia tragica y aparentemente emancipadora de Winston Smith y Julia, quienes tratan de escapar de un sistema donde la intimidad y el libre pensamiento estan prohibidos.

Se mi aveste chiesto perché mi ero arruolato nella milizia avrei risposto: "Per combattere il fascismo", e se mi aveste chiesto per cosa combattevo, avrei risposto: "per il buonsenso".Nel dicembre 1936, George Orwell si arruola volontario per difendere la democrazia in Spagna. Omaggio alla Catalogna ne racconta le vicende e levoluzione del pensiero dellautore. Lavversione per ogni totalitarismo, anche di matrice comunista, che sfocera in Animal Farm e in 1984 trova un momento esperienziale proprio in questopera. Il testo, di nuova traduzione, e accompagnato da una guida sintetica - in postfazione- su fatti e personaggi narrati nel testo, utili a contestualizzare, soprattutto alle nuove generazioni, lo scenario dellazione. Segnala informazioni inesatte.

Um livro para não esquecer. Um livro para despertar mentes. Uma sociedade hedionda, repugnante, desumana.1984 : NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR oferece hoje uma descrição quase realista do vastíssimo sistema de

Aquest és un recull d’assajos periodístics en què George Orwell explora temes diversos a l’entorn del món del llibre, la cultura, les llibreries, la professió de crític i la llibertat de premsa. En l

« De tous les carrefours importants, le visage à la moustache noire vous fixait du regard. BIG BROTHER VOUS REGARDE, répétait la légende, tandis que le regard des yeux noirs pénétrait les yeux de Winston... Au loin, un hélicoptère glissa entre les toits, plana un moment, telle une mouche bleue, puis repartit comme une flèche, dans un vol courbe. C'était une patrouille qui venait mettre le nez aux fenêtres des gens. Mais les patrouilles n'avaient pas d'importance. Seule comptait la Police de la Pensée. »

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls peoples lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control something like love, perhaps?

Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple style it is no surprise that this novel is required reading for schoolchildren and politicians alike. This fable of the steadfast horses Boxer and Clover, the opportunistic pigs Snowball and Napoleon, and the deafening choir of sheep remains an unparalleled masterpiece.One reviewer wrote 'In a hundred years' time perhaps Animal Farm ... may simply be a fairy story: today it is a fairy story with a good deal of point.' Over sixty years on in the age of spin, it is more relevant than ever.Rejected by such eminent publishing figures as Victor Gollancz, Jonathan Cape and T.S. Eliot, Animal Farm was published to great acclaim by Martin Secker and Warburg on 17 August 1945 in an edition of 4500 copies. In the centenary year of Martin Secker, Ltd., Harvill Secker is proud to publish this special edition with a brand-new introduction by Christopher Hitchens.

Inquietante interpretación futurista basada en la crítica a los totalitarismos y a la opresión del poder.Londres, 1984: Winston Smith decide rebelarse ante un gobierno totalitario que controla cada uno de los movimientos de sus ciudadanos y castiga incluso a aquellos que delinquen con el pensamiento. Consciente de las terribles consecuencias que puede acarrear la disidencia, Winston se une a la ambigua Hermandad por mediacion del lider OBrien. Paulatinamente, sin embargo, nuestro protagonista va comprendiendo que ni la Hermandad ni OBrien son lo que aparentan, y que la rebelion, al cabo, quiza sea un objetivo inalcanzable. Por su magnifico analisis del poder y de las relaciones y dependencias que crea en los individuos, 1984 es una de las novelas mas inquietantes y atractivas de este siglo.

És un llibre molt modest: sembla que digui el mínim que es pot dir d'un tema de gran magnitud. I, en dir-ne el mínim, en diu el màxim. El tema principal és un període de la Guerra Civil espanyola en