Homenaje a Cataluña
By: George Orwell ; prólogo de Miquel Berga ; traducción de Miguel Temprano García
Contributors: Temprano García, Miguel
Edition: 1a ed.
Publisher: Debate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Barcelona
Language: spa
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9788499920061
Subjects: Politics and government; Autores ingleses; Travel; English Authors; Historia; Soldiers; Biografía; Gobierno; Personal narratives; Soldados; Relatos personales; Biography; History
Work titles: Homage to Catalonia
Description: In 1936, George Orwell went to Spain to report on the civil war and instead joined the P.O.U.M. militia to fight against the Fascists. In this account of his experience, he describes both the bleak and the comic aspects of trench warfare on the Aragon front, the Barcelona uprising in May 1937, his nearly fatal wounding just two weeks later, and his escape from Barcelona into France after the P.O.U.M. was suppressed. As important as the story of the war itself is Orwell's analysis of why the Communist Party sabotaged the workers' revolution and branded the P.O.U.M. as Trotskyist, which provides an essential key to understanding the outcome of the war and an ironic sidelight on international Communism. It was during this period in Spain that Orwell learned for himself the nature of totalitarianism in practice, an education that laid the groundwork for his books Animal farm and 1984.
Notes: Translation of: Homage to Catalonia.