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George Orwell • Animal Farm
Comprenant ce qui se passait sous Staline, George Orwell s’en fit largement l’écho. En 1945, malgré une résistance acharnée contre la sortie du livre, il publia La Ferme des animaux, une fable faisant la satire de l’Union soviétique.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
It’s a similar story with the flap copy that Orwell wrote for the first edition of Animal Farm, published in 1945 by Secker & Warburg.40 In clear, measured tones, it tells us: It is the history of a revolution that went wrong – and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for each perversion of the original doctrine.
Louise Willder • Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets
George Orwell on politics and the english language:
What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing ... See more