Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
He fought in Spain. Learned how revolutions betray.
you want to understand political disillusionment through someone who went in idealistic and came out clear-eyed
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Orwell arrived in Barcelona in 1936 to fight against Franco and found himself in the middle of a revolution — streets without class distinctions, workers running the trams, a genuine attempt to build something new. Then the Stalinists arrived and started arresting the anarchists. Orwell was shot through the throat and barely escaped with his life. This is the dispatch that taught him everything he needed to write Animal Farm and 1984 — the moment he understood that the enemies of fascism could also be its mirror image.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Spain • Europe
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Spain
