Homage to Catalonia

"It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists."

"The thing that really saves you is that on the whole human beings are selfish and ignoble, and that they don't feel any great impulse to perform starry-eyed heroic actions for long periods."

"So much of it is filthy and boring and miserable, so like a football match with the side-issues of a seaside hotel, that it is difficult to realize that one is taking part in an historical event."

"The whole atmosphere of the town, with its foreigners and spies, its rumors and counter-rumors, was beastly; it was a sort of armed truce, with everyone watching his neighbor for a slip."

"History can be falsified, but so long as I am alive and my faculties are unimpaired I will never forget that I saw frontline troops equipped with telescopes cut out of cardboard."

"Every line of it is written from a subjective point of view... I warn every reader to put my book down if he wants a coolly balanced 'impartial' history of the Spanish war."

✅ المزايا

⚠️ العيوب

George Orwell (1903-1950) was an English author and journalist renowned for dystopian and political fiction, including '1984' and 'Animal Farm', works that have profoundly shaped modern political discourse.