October Book Club
October 26 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Homage to Catalonia Chapters 3-5
Links to the book
Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com/Homage-Catalonia-George-Orwell-dp-0544382048/dp/0544382048/
Non Amazon bookstores:
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/homage-to-catalonia-9780544382046
Free PDF
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/george-orwell-homage-to-catalonia
Description from the Amazon page
“In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself embroiled as a participant—as a member of the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unity. Fighting against the Fascists, he described in painfully vivid and occasionally comic detail life in the trenches—with a “democratic army” composed of men with no ranks, no titles, and often no weapons—and his near fatal wounding. As the politics became tangled, Orwell was pulled into a heartbreaking conflict between his own personal ideals and the complicated realities of political power struggles.
Considered one of the finest works by a man V. S. Pritchett called “the wintry conscience of a generation,” Homage to Catalonia is both Orwell’s memoir of his experiences at the front and his tribute to those who died in what he called a fight for common decency. This edition features a new foreword by Adam Hochschild placing the war in greater context and discussing the evolution of Orwell’s views on the Spanish Civil War.
“No one except George Orwell . . . made the violence and self-dramatization of Spain so burning and terrible.”— Alfred Kazin, New York Times”