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丌爻 賵 倬丕爻 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賵 賱賳丿賳 丕賵賱蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘蹖 丕爻鬲 讴賴 丕夭 丕賵乇賵賱 賲賳鬲卮乇 卮丿. 丕賵 亘乇蹖 趩丕倬 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇丿爻乇鈥屬囏й� 夭蹖丕丿蹖 讴卮蹖丿貨 丿賵 賳丕卮乇 丌賳 乇丕 丿乇 讴乇丿賳丿 賵 丨鬲蹖 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賳爻禺賴鈥屰� 丿爻鬲賳賵蹖爻 乇丕 亘賴 丿賵爻鬲蹖 丿丕丿 鬲丕 丌賳 乇丕 亘爻賵夭丕賳丿. 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇賵丕蹖鬲 丕賵乇賵賱 丕爻鬲 丕夭 賲賯胤毓蹖 賮賱丕讴鬲鈥屫ㄘж� 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖鈥屫ж� 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賵 賱賳丿賳貙 丿賵乇丕賳蹖 讴賴 丿乇 讴賳丕乇 丌丿賲鈥屬囏й� 賮乇賵丿爻鬲 噩丕賲毓賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲蹖鈥屭┴必� 賵 亘乇丕蹖 丕賲乇丕乇 賲毓丕卮 鬲賳 亘賴 賴乇 讴丕乇蹖 賲蹖鈥屫ж�. 诏乇趩賴 卮賴乇鬲 丕賵乇賵賱 亘賴 賲夭乇毓賴鈥屰� 丨蹖賵丕賳丕鬲 賵 郾酃鄹鄞 丕爻鬲貙 亘毓囟蹖 丕夭 胤乇賮丿丕乇丕賳卮 讴鬲丕亘 丨丕囟乇 乇丕 禺賵丕賳丿賳蹖鈥屫臂屬� 丕孬乇 丕賵 賲蹖鈥屫з嗁嗀�.
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First published January 1, 1933
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George Orwell
1,276听books48k听followersEric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936鈥�1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.
Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"鈥攄escribing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices鈥攊s part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". In 2008, The Times named Orwell the second-greatest British writer since 1945.
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June 29, 2008
Do not read this book if you are unemployed.
Do not read this book if you are homeless.
Do not read this book if you are worried about the tanking economy.
Do not read this book if you have no retirement savings.
Do not read this book if you don't like eating stale bread and margarine.
Do not read this book if you like eating in restaurants.
Do not read this book if you are sensitive to foul odors.
Do not read this book if you are one of those people who carries a hand-sanitizer at all times.
Do not read this book if you are an artist, writer, musician or other creative occupation which certainly guarantees brushes with poverty.
If you do read this book (which I highly recommend) make sure you have some bubble bath on hand as you will need a nice long well-perfumed soak afterwards.
Do not read this book if you are homeless.
Do not read this book if you are worried about the tanking economy.
Do not read this book if you have no retirement savings.
Do not read this book if you don't like eating stale bread and margarine.
Do not read this book if you like eating in restaurants.
Do not read this book if you are sensitive to foul odors.
Do not read this book if you are one of those people who carries a hand-sanitizer at all times.
Do not read this book if you are an artist, writer, musician or other creative occupation which certainly guarantees brushes with poverty.
If you do read this book (which I highly recommend) make sure you have some bubble bath on hand as you will need a nice long well-perfumed soak afterwards.
November 24, 2019
As anyone who has read 1984 can attest, Orwell is--among other things--a master of disgust, a writer who can describe a squalid apartment building, an aging painted whore or a drunken old man with just the right details to make the reader's nose twitch with displeasure, his stomach rise into the throat with revulsion. What makes this book so good is that--although he may continually evoke this reaction in his account of the working and the wandering poor--Orwell never demeans or dismisses the human beings who live in this repulsive environment. The people he describes may be disgusting, but they are often resourceful too, and Orwell makes it clear that it is the economic system itself--not the character flaws of particular individuals caught up in the system--which is to blame for so much squalor and suffering.
I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to read a vivid description of the conditions of those who live beneath the underbelly of society and the stratagems they use to survive, whether they be recently impoverished men endeavoring to maintain respectability, Paris dishwashers sweating through their underground existence, or British tramps enduring the daily bone-wearying trek for a cheap place to lay their heads.
May 16, 2019
鈥淚t is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.鈥�
In 1927 Eric Arthur Blair A.K.A. George Orwell gives up his job as a policeman in Burma and moves back to his lodgings on Portobello Road in London with the intention of being a writer. Like with many artists, writers, and those that wished to be one or the other, the siren song of Paris beckoned Orwell. In 1928 he moves to The City of Light.
鈥滻t was lamplight--that strange purplish gleam of the Paris lamps--and beyond the river the Eiffel Tower flashed from top to bottom with zigzag skysigns, like enormous snakes of fire.鈥�
His lodgings are robbed byan Italian man a trollop he has brought back to his room for what can be presumed for a carnal dalliance, but one must have a proper story for the parents especially when one is soliciting funds. This is really the beginning of a rather abrupt slide into poverty. Little did he know this change of circumstances was going to provide him with the material he needed to get published.
A gagger--beggar or street performer of any kind.
I do hope that everyone has had an opportunity to experience some poverty. When I was in college I had several moments where my gas tank was on E, that amber dot nearly burned a hole in my retina, and well food, skipping a few meals builds character. The one thing that I learned about my brief bouts of impecuniousness was that I didn鈥檛 like it. The anxiety of potentially revealing the precarious nature of my affairs was much more excruciating than the discomfort of hunger or even the tension inspired by the keenly tuned ear listening intently for the first cough of an engine starved for gas.
The mind does sharpen when deprived of nutrients.
A moocher--one who begs outright, without pretense of doing a trade.
A slice of Orwell鈥檚 Paris.
Orwell does become truly down and out barely scraping together enough money to maintain lodging. Everything pawnable or salable is already in the shops and now he must find a job. He tramps for miles all over the city following rumors of employment. He finally lands a position at a hotel restaurant washing dishes. It isn鈥檛 particularly difficult work, but the hours are unbelievably long. Since he is on the lowest rung of the very tall totem pole he is roundly cursed by everyone.
鈥滵o you see that? That is the type of plongeur they send us nowadays. Where do you come from, idiot? From Charenton I suppose?鈥� (There is a large lunatic asylum at Charenton.)
鈥淔rom England,鈥� I said.
鈥淚 might have known it. Well, mon cher monsieur, L鈥橝nglais, may I inform you that you are the son of a whore?鈥�
I got this kind of reception every time I went to the kitchen, for I always made some mistake; I was expected to know the work, and was cursed accordingly. From curiosity I counted the number of times I was called maquereau during the day, and it was thirty-nine.
A glimmer--one who watches vacant motor-cars.
Down and Out in paris
There is a camaraderie that comes from working long hours, from getting up with aching muscles, and a wool stuffed head from too little sleep. While in college I worked for a used bookstore that was the size of a grocery store. We were always understaffed, sometimes ridiculously understaffed. We needed three cashiers and generally had two. We needed three book buyers and generally had one. It wasn鈥檛 infrequent for people to work double shifts, not for the money, but because we couldn鈥檛 stand to think of our comrades left facing impossible odds. What was crazy is after we closed the store we would sit out in the parking lot, or when we could afford it go get a drink, and talk about books or about the craziness that happened during our shift until the wee hours of the morning. We were as bonded as soldiers in the trench because we were survivors. We didn鈥檛 bother to learn much about newbies until they had been there a month because chances were they would last a week or less.
We were working for $4 an hour.
A drop--money given to a beggar.
The endless stream of dirty dishes is truly an Orwellian nightmare.
While working in this fine restaurant Orwell did reveal some things that made me queasy.
鈥漌hen a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook鈥檚 inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb around the dish and licks it to taste the gravy, runs it round and licks again, the steps back and contemplates the piece of meal like an artist judging a picture, then presses it lovingly into place with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning.鈥�
But the place of course is kept spic and span, right?
鈥滶verywhere in the service quarters dirt festered--a secret vein of dirt, running through the garish hotel like the intestines through a man鈥檚 body.鈥�
You may reassure yourself that restaurants are much better regulated now than they were in Paris in the 1920s and they are, but chat with a few people who work in the industry and it may not be as easy to reassure yourself.
A flattie--a policeman.
I always marvel at people that make a complete ass out of themselves berating a waiter in a restaurant. The distance that food must be carried from the cook to the table there is so much time for a waiter to enact some form of petty, but very satisfying revenge on some disrespectful jerk.
To knock off--to steal.
鈥漌aiters in good hotels do not wear moustaches, and to show their superiority they decree that plongeurs shall not wear them either; and the cooks wear the moustaches to show their contempt for the waiters鈥濃€�. Thus Orwell had to shave his moustaches.
Henry Miller was in Paris about the same time as Orwell. Miller wrote his books without worrying about what mommy and daddy might think. Orwell certainly put his remembrances through a strainer and certainly this book does not have the gritty intensity of a Miller novel. The descriptions of his time in the Paris restaurants are superbly drawn. They were certainly my favorite parts of the book. When he gets back to London he spends time tramping through the various charity houses and reveals the absurdity of the way they are run. He also makes a compelling case for changing the public view of who a tramp really is. A quick, enjoyable read, that for me, brought back some surprisingly fond memories of when I REALLY worked for living; and yet, still walked the razor edge of weekly impoverishment.
***3.75 stars out of 5
In 1927 Eric Arthur Blair A.K.A. George Orwell gives up his job as a policeman in Burma and moves back to his lodgings on Portobello Road in London with the intention of being a writer. Like with many artists, writers, and those that wished to be one or the other, the siren song of Paris beckoned Orwell. In 1928 he moves to The City of Light.
鈥滻t was lamplight--that strange purplish gleam of the Paris lamps--and beyond the river the Eiffel Tower flashed from top to bottom with zigzag skysigns, like enormous snakes of fire.鈥�
His lodgings are robbed by
A gagger--beggar or street performer of any kind.
I do hope that everyone has had an opportunity to experience some poverty. When I was in college I had several moments where my gas tank was on E, that amber dot nearly burned a hole in my retina, and well food, skipping a few meals builds character. The one thing that I learned about my brief bouts of impecuniousness was that I didn鈥檛 like it. The anxiety of potentially revealing the precarious nature of my affairs was much more excruciating than the discomfort of hunger or even the tension inspired by the keenly tuned ear listening intently for the first cough of an engine starved for gas.
The mind does sharpen when deprived of nutrients.
A moocher--one who begs outright, without pretense of doing a trade.
A slice of Orwell鈥檚 Paris.
Orwell does become truly down and out barely scraping together enough money to maintain lodging. Everything pawnable or salable is already in the shops and now he must find a job. He tramps for miles all over the city following rumors of employment. He finally lands a position at a hotel restaurant washing dishes. It isn鈥檛 particularly difficult work, but the hours are unbelievably long. Since he is on the lowest rung of the very tall totem pole he is roundly cursed by everyone.
鈥滵o you see that? That is the type of plongeur they send us nowadays. Where do you come from, idiot? From Charenton I suppose?鈥� (There is a large lunatic asylum at Charenton.)
鈥淔rom England,鈥� I said.
鈥淚 might have known it. Well, mon cher monsieur, L鈥橝nglais, may I inform you that you are the son of a whore?鈥�
I got this kind of reception every time I went to the kitchen, for I always made some mistake; I was expected to know the work, and was cursed accordingly. From curiosity I counted the number of times I was called maquereau during the day, and it was thirty-nine.
A glimmer--one who watches vacant motor-cars.
Down and Out in paris
There is a camaraderie that comes from working long hours, from getting up with aching muscles, and a wool stuffed head from too little sleep. While in college I worked for a used bookstore that was the size of a grocery store. We were always understaffed, sometimes ridiculously understaffed. We needed three cashiers and generally had two. We needed three book buyers and generally had one. It wasn鈥檛 infrequent for people to work double shifts, not for the money, but because we couldn鈥檛 stand to think of our comrades left facing impossible odds. What was crazy is after we closed the store we would sit out in the parking lot, or when we could afford it go get a drink, and talk about books or about the craziness that happened during our shift until the wee hours of the morning. We were as bonded as soldiers in the trench because we were survivors. We didn鈥檛 bother to learn much about newbies until they had been there a month because chances were they would last a week or less.
We were working for $4 an hour.
A drop--money given to a beggar.
The endless stream of dirty dishes is truly an Orwellian nightmare.
While working in this fine restaurant Orwell did reveal some things that made me queasy.
鈥漌hen a steak, for instance, is brought up for the head cook鈥檚 inspection, he does not handle it with a fork. He picks it up in his fingers and slaps it down, runs his thumb around the dish and licks it to taste the gravy, runs it round and licks again, the steps back and contemplates the piece of meal like an artist judging a picture, then presses it lovingly into place with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning.鈥�
But the place of course is kept spic and span, right?
鈥滶verywhere in the service quarters dirt festered--a secret vein of dirt, running through the garish hotel like the intestines through a man鈥檚 body.鈥�
You may reassure yourself that restaurants are much better regulated now than they were in Paris in the 1920s and they are, but chat with a few people who work in the industry and it may not be as easy to reassure yourself.
A flattie--a policeman.
I always marvel at people that make a complete ass out of themselves berating a waiter in a restaurant. The distance that food must be carried from the cook to the table there is so much time for a waiter to enact some form of petty, but very satisfying revenge on some disrespectful jerk.
To knock off--to steal.
鈥漌aiters in good hotels do not wear moustaches, and to show their superiority they decree that plongeurs shall not wear them either; and the cooks wear the moustaches to show their contempt for the waiters鈥濃€�. Thus Orwell had to shave his moustaches.
Henry Miller was in Paris about the same time as Orwell. Miller wrote his books without worrying about what mommy and daddy might think. Orwell certainly put his remembrances through a strainer and certainly this book does not have the gritty intensity of a Miller novel. The descriptions of his time in the Paris restaurants are superbly drawn. They were certainly my favorite parts of the book. When he gets back to London he spends time tramping through the various charity houses and reveals the absurdity of the way they are run. He also makes a compelling case for changing the public view of who a tramp really is. A quick, enjoyable read, that for me, brought back some surprisingly fond memories of when I REALLY worked for living; and yet, still walked the razor edge of weekly impoverishment.
***3.75 stars out of 5
September 23, 2021
Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the British author George Orwell, published in 1933.
It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities.
The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.
The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.
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丿丕爻鬲丕賳 芦丌爻 賵 倬丕爻鈥屬囏� 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賵 賱賳丿賳禄貙 乇賵丕蹖鬲 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 蹖 芦亘乇蹖鬲丕賳蹖丕蹖蹖禄貙 芦噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱禄貙 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 賮賯乇丕貙 賵 亘蹖鈥屫з嗁呚з嗏€屬囏� 丿乇 芦倬丕乇蹖爻禄貙 賵 芦賱賳丿賳禄 丕爻鬲貨 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丿乇 賲丕賴 跇丕賳賵蹖賴 爻丕賱 1933賲蹖賱丕丿蹖 賲賳鬲卮乇 卮丿貙 賵 丿乇 丕賳鬲卮丕乇 丌賳 亘乇丕蹖 賳禺爻鬲蹖賳 亘丕乇貙 噩賳丕亘 芦丕乇蹖讴 丌乇鬲賵乇 亘賱乇禄 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴貙 丕夭 賳丕賲 賲爻鬲毓丕乇 芦噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱禄貙 爻賵丿 亘乇丿賳丿貨 芦丕賵乇賵賱禄 倬爻 丕夭 禺賵丕賳卮 芦鬲賴蹖丿爻鬲丕賳 噩讴 賱賳丿賳禄貙 亘賴 夭賳丿诏蹖 丿乇 賲蹖丕賳 胤亘賯丕鬲 賲丨乇賵賲丕賳貙 賵 賲賴丕噩乇丕賳貙 丿乇 卮賴乇賴丕蹖 芦倬丕乇蹖爻禄 賵 卮賴乇 芦賱賳丿賳禄 毓賱丕賯賲賳丿 卮丿賳丿貨 乇賵蹖丿丕丿賴丕蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 丌賲蹖禺鬲賴 亘丕 賮賯乇 丕蹖卮丕賳貙 丿乇 亘賴丕乇 1928賲蹖賱丕丿蹖貙 丿乇 賲爻丕賮乇禺丕賳賴鈥� 賴丕蹖 芦倬丕乇蹖爻禄貙 賵 丕卮鬲睾丕賱卮 亘賴 馗乇賮卮賵蹖蹖貙 丿乇 乇爻鬲賵乇丕賳鈥屬囏� 賵 賴鬲賱鈥屬囏й� 芦倬丕乇蹖爻禄貙 賮氐賱鈥屬囏й� 賳禺爻鬲 丕蹖賳 乇賵丕蹖鬲 乇丕貙 卮讴賱 賲蹖鈥屫囏� 乇丕賵蹖 丿乇 亘禺卮賴丕蹖蹖 丕夭 夭賳丿诏蹖 禺賵蹖卮 丿乇 芦倬丕乇蹖爻禄貙 亘丕 蹖讴 丕賮爻乇 倬蹖卮蹖賳 芦乇賵爻蹖賴禄貙 亘賴 賳丕賲 芦亘賵乇蹖爻禄貙 賴賲乇丕賴 賲蹖卮賵丿貙 讴賴 亘賴 爻禺鬲蹖 夭賳丿诏蹖 禺賵蹖卮 乇丕 賲蹖诏匕乇丕賳丿貙 賵 丕夭 氐丕丨亘禺丕賳賴 蹖 芦蹖賴賵丿蹖禄 禺賵蹖卮 賳丕乇丕囟蹖 丕爻鬲貨 亘乇禺蹖 亘賴 賴賲蹖賳 丿賱蹖賱貙 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 乇丕 芦蹖賴賵丿 爻鬲蹖夭丕賳賴禄 賲蹖丿丕賳賳丿貨
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鬲丕乇蹖禺 亘賴賳诏丕賲 乇爻丕賳蹖 16/08/1399賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 31/06/1400賴噩乇蹖 禺賵乇卮蹖丿蹖貨 丕. 卮乇亘蹖丕賳蹖
Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the British author George Orwell, published in 1933.
It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities.
The first part is an account of living in near-destitution in Paris and the experience of casual labour in restaurant kitchens.
The second part is a travelogue of life on the road in and around London from the tramp's perspective, with descriptions of the types of hostel accommodation available and some of the characters to be found living on the margins.
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July 12, 2018
this book isn't going to cause anyone to have the huge revelation that "poverty is hard!" or anything, because - duh - but it also doesn't piss me off the way morgan spurlock pisses me off, because orwell makes his story come alive and there is so much local color, so many individual life stories in here that this book, despite being horribly depressing, is also full of the resourcefulness of man and the resilience of people that have been left by the wayside. it is triumphant, not manipulative.
i liked the part when he was down and out in paris better than the part he was down and out in england. even though he had a handy exit strategy in england, in the form of someone who was willing to lend him money when he was truly and completely broke, and even though he only had to live the tramp's life for a month in england before his job started, the english parts were just so much more dismal, so horrifyingly bleak.
in paris, poverty is almost a lark. the accommodations are better, the homeless are allowed to congregate beneath bridges and these is almost a romantic tinge to being penniless.
england is just grim. flat-out grim.
big ups to orwell for his details - the smells and the disease and the horror of unwashed men being forced into cramped quarters are unfortunately very well-rendered and can be quite sickening at times. and the conditions of fine parisian restaurants at the time... shudder. don't read this while you are eating.
but this book will make you want to eat, truly. the days without food, the dizziness, the suffering. i ate like a hog on sunday, and felt very guilty for doing so while reading this, but it left such a hollow in me, i had to fill it somehow.
and - yes, this book was somewhat fabricated, and is like thoreau "in the wilderness," but that doesn't make orwell's observations any less legitimate or powerful.
thank you for writing such a fine book, george orwell...
i liked the part when he was down and out in paris better than the part he was down and out in england. even though he had a handy exit strategy in england, in the form of someone who was willing to lend him money when he was truly and completely broke, and even though he only had to live the tramp's life for a month in england before his job started, the english parts were just so much more dismal, so horrifyingly bleak.
in paris, poverty is almost a lark. the accommodations are better, the homeless are allowed to congregate beneath bridges and these is almost a romantic tinge to being penniless.
england is just grim. flat-out grim.
big ups to orwell for his details - the smells and the disease and the horror of unwashed men being forced into cramped quarters are unfortunately very well-rendered and can be quite sickening at times. and the conditions of fine parisian restaurants at the time... shudder. don't read this while you are eating.
but this book will make you want to eat, truly. the days without food, the dizziness, the suffering. i ate like a hog on sunday, and felt very guilty for doing so while reading this, but it left such a hollow in me, i had to fill it somehow.
and - yes, this book was somewhat fabricated, and is like thoreau "in the wilderness," but that doesn't make orwell's observations any less legitimate or powerful.
thank you for writing such a fine book, george orwell...
December 12, 2024
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鬲賯賷賷賲賷 賱賴 賰丕賳 丨賷賰賵賳 賳噩賲鬲賷賳 賮賯胤 賱賵賱丕 亘爻 廿賳賴丕 鬲噩乇亘丞 卮禺氐賷丞 氐毓亘丞 賲乇 亘賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 賵廿鬲賰賱賲 毓賳賴丕 亘卮噩丕毓丞 賵賵囟賵丨 亘噩丕賳亘 廿賳賷 兀爻鬲賲鬲毓鬲 亘賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱兀賵賱 賵賰丕賳 賮賷賴 鬲賮丕氐賷賱 '賱匕賷匕丞' 毓賳 賲丕 賷丨丿孬 賮賷 賲胤丕亘禺 丕賱賲胤丕毓賲 賵丕賱賮賳丕丿賯 丨鬲禺賱賷賰 鬲賮賰乇 兀賱賮 賲乇丞 賯亘賱 賲丕 鬲丕賰賱 亘乇丞 丕賱亘賷鬲..賵丿賷 賱賵丨丿賴丕 賰賮丕賷丞 廿賳賳丕 賳丿賷賱賴 賳噩賲丞 夭賷丕丿丞:))
November 14, 2019
Orwell demonstrates his social conscience and empathy for the poor, which I think, makes his more famous attacks on totalitarianism more credible.
This is also an interesting novel to read for a glimpse into Paris and London of that time, between 1900 and 1930. Orwell worked in some restaurants and his view from the kitchen is far less romantic than Hemingway鈥檚 perspective from the table.
Not really a classic or a masterpiece, but a book that should be read.
This is also an interesting novel to read for a glimpse into Paris and London of that time, between 1900 and 1930. Orwell worked in some restaurants and his view from the kitchen is far less romantic than Hemingway鈥檚 perspective from the table.
Not really a classic or a masterpiece, but a book that should be read.
September 12, 2024
Orwell鈥檚 take on destitution was every bit as good as I expected it to be: beautifully phrased, meticulous, honest, funny, but also moving, and along with his own vivid experiences of living a hand to mouth existence he blends the testimonies of other refugees and homeless people in Paris and London. This book might not have even come about had it not been for a thief who pinched the last of an ailing Orwell鈥檚 savings from his Paris boarding room in 1929, thus leading him to search for dishwashing work in the kitchens of the French capital. Yes Paris was indeed a tough place to find shelter between the wars and even though Orwell eventually found a job at the anonymous Hotel X, a place where dirty roast chickens were served, and chefs spat in soup, he remained without pay for ten days and so was forced to sleep on a bench until he had enough to cover rent. Throughout the book, when he did manage to find somewhere to stay, some of the beds even had blocks of wood for pillows.
鈥淭he Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people 鈥� people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work,鈥� he wrote then, although his sympathies were firmly with his fellow 鈥渂eggars鈥�.
The book both illuminates the huge change between 1933 and now and exposes horrifying similarities. As Orwell reveals the cruelty of a lack of workers鈥� rights, where livelihoods are lost overnight or jobs not secure from one day to the next day, a modern audience cannot help but hear the words 鈥榸ero hours contracts鈥�. Job insecurity is still a major driver of homelessness nearly 90 years later. When in London Orwell describes the police arresting rough sleepers or 鈥榤oving them on鈥�, he foreshadows recent events such as the cleansing of the streets of Windsor before the royal wedding, and fines presented to beggars in Coventry. As he describes 鈥渢he stories in the Sunday papers about beggars鈥ith two thousand pounds sewn into their trousers鈥� we can hear the headlines from this very year in a national newspaper proclaiming 鈥渇ake homeless are earning 拢150 a day鈥�.
Orwell鈥檚 books, however, are more than just treatises aiming to right the political wrongs. Aside from his political intentions, much of Orwell鈥檚 appeal has always rested in his brilliance as a writer: his ability to distil vast ideas or injustices into the most perfect phrases, his descriptive passages artfully conjuring the slum backstreets of 1930s Paris, and his sense of the preciousness of humanity, bringing clarity and colour to people's lives. through all all the filth, dirt, and smelly bodies, Orwell writes here and there with small moments of beauty, that at first don't feel immediately apparent. And when he writes of the people he meets in Down and Out are 鈥渏ust ordinary human beings鈥�, he is stating a simple and obvious fact 鈥� but one that, even today, is still too often forgotten.
The seriousness of poverty really makes you sit up and take notice, yet it's not a depressing book, which I thought it might be. I found it all really fascinating, and it's just as much an important book now as it was back then. A must read.
April 1, 2019
陌麓ve read the Essay 鈥淧aris Ve Londra'da Be艧 Paras谋z鈥� written by George Orwell. It麓s a biography of his own life and personal experiences. After George Orwell麓s cancellation as officer of the British colonial power, he flew to Paris to work as an English teacher, because he aspired a job as a committed writer. Unfortunately his job as an English teacher and writer didn麓t worked out and consequently he worked as a day labourer, harvester and dishwasher in a luxury restaurant. 鈥淧aris Ve Londra'da Be艧 Paras谋z鈥� isn麓t about political emphasises and has principally an anecdotic character. However this biography shows and emphasises clearly the former living environment of the entirely poverty stricken lower classes. It麓s questionable if the business of those big hotels is still the same after 70 years, as Orwell describes. But yet this biography is very enriching and motivates the reader to think about this personal story.
July 24, 2013
Do not read this book while eating! I've been told that this book is semi-autobiographical. If so, George Orwell had an even more interesting life than I'd imagined! This book was disturbing, insightful and also funny (great, great characters, some just plain weird!)
The first half of the book depicts the main character's experiences living in poverty in Paris.Some of the descriptions about the living and working conditions are quite gruesome. All those bugs! Orwell sheds more light on what it must feel like to be poor; the ennui etc.I don't think I'll be able to eat at a Parisian restaurant anytime soon because now I'm a little paranoid about the cooking conditions.
The second half of the book finds the protagonist back in London and we learn more about what it means to be a "tramp." Equally as disgusting descriptions as those in the Paris section, especially the part where several tramps had to use the same bucket of dirty water for cleaning themselves up, yuck!
Orwell definitely puts a human face on the tramps. He explains how tramping is a huge social problem and then suggests how this problem can be remedied. As I live in Vancouver, the Canadian city with the highest number of homeless people, I agree with his explanations and thoughts.
My only gripe was with this particular edition of the book. Way too many typos, both in English and in French. Also, they censored out some of the swear words, bizarre.
Fantastic book! Orwell rarely disappoints me with his wit and insight.
The first half of the book depicts the main character's experiences living in poverty in Paris.Some of the descriptions about the living and working conditions are quite gruesome. All those bugs! Orwell sheds more light on what it must feel like to be poor; the ennui etc.I don't think I'll be able to eat at a Parisian restaurant anytime soon because now I'm a little paranoid about the cooking conditions.
The second half of the book finds the protagonist back in London and we learn more about what it means to be a "tramp." Equally as disgusting descriptions as those in the Paris section, especially the part where several tramps had to use the same bucket of dirty water for cleaning themselves up, yuck!
Orwell definitely puts a human face on the tramps. He explains how tramping is a huge social problem and then suggests how this problem can be remedied. As I live in Vancouver, the Canadian city with the highest number of homeless people, I agree with his explanations and thoughts.
My only gripe was with this particular edition of the book. Way too many typos, both in English and in French. Also, they censored out some of the swear words, bizarre.
Fantastic book! Orwell rarely disappoints me with his wit and insight.
August 17, 2020
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螌蟿伪谓 胃伪 蔚委蟽蟿蔚 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰蟺蠅位蔚委慰, 伪谓 蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 尉蔚蠁蠀位位委蟽蔚蟿蔚 蟿慰 蟽蠀纬魏蔚魏蟻喂渭苇谓慰 尾喂尾位委慰, 蟻委尉蟿蔚 渭喂伪 渭伪蟿喂维 蟽蟿伪 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪 22, 36 魏伪喂 38. 螌位蔚蟼 慰喂 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁苇蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪胃位喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼, 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿蔚蟻萎蟽蔚蠅谓, 蟿畏 尾蟻蠅渭喂维蟼, 蟿畏蟼 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪蟼, 蟿慰蠀 蔚尉蔚蠀蟿蔚位喂蟽渭慰蠉, 蟿畏蟼 蔚魏渭蔚蟿维位位蔚蠀蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽畏蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 伪蟺慰蟽魏慰蟺慰蠉谓 蟽蟿畏谓 未喂伪蟿蠉蟺蠅蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠋谓 蟺慰蠀 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠉蟽蟽慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 伪蠀蟿维 蟿伪 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪.
螤蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 渭喂伪 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻畏 渭蔚委尉畏 未畏渭慰蟽喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏萎蟼 苇蟻蔚蠀谓伪蟼, 畏渭蔚蟻慰位慰纬喂伪魏萎蟼 魏伪蟿伪纬蟻伪蠁萎蟼, 伪蠀蟿慰尾喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 魏伪喂 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏慰蠉 蟽蠂慰位喂伪蟽渭慰蠉. 螣 螌蟻纬慰蠀蔚位 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位伪谓喂苇蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 螤伪蟻委蟽喂 魏伪喂 蟿慰 螞慰谓未委谓慰 蟿慰蠀 螠蔚蟽慰蟺慰位苇渭慰蠀, 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蟺慰蠀 畏 伪谓蔚蟻纬委伪 胃蔚蟻委味蔚喂, 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻苇伪 渭蔚 维位位慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪 蟽蠀谓慰未慰喂蟺蠈蟻慰蠀蟼 蟿慰蠀, 蟺伪蟽蠂委味蔚喂 谓伪 蔚尉伪蟽蠁伪位委蟽蔚喂 魏维胃蔚 尾蟻维未蠀 苇谓伪 魏伪蟿维位蠀渭伪 谓伪 魏慰喂渭畏胃蔚委, 蟺慰位位苇蟼 蠁慰蟻苇蟼 渭苇谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 谓畏蟽蟿喂魏蠈蟼 纬喂伪 蠅蟼 魏伪喂 蟺苇谓蟿蔚 渭苇蟻蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蠀蟺慰蠁苇蟻慰谓蟿伪蟼 伪谓蠀蟺苇蟻尾位畏蟿蔚蟼 蟽蟿蔚蟻萎蟽蔚喂蟼.
螤慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 位伪蠈蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈蟼 蟺慰蠀 伪魏慰蠉蔚喂 蠈蟺蔚蟻伪, 未喂伪尾维味蔚喂 蠄伪纬渭苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委伪, 蠄蠀蠂伪纬蠅纬蔚委蟿伪喂 尾位苇蟺慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿伪喂谓委蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀 韦伪蟻伪谓蟿委谓慰 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 螝喂慰蠉渭蟺蟻喂魏 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓蔚委蟿伪喂 伪蟺蠈 蟺委谓伪魏蔚蟼 魏伪喂 苇蟻纬伪 蟿苇蠂谓畏蟼 蟽蟿喂蟼 纬魏伪位蔚蟻委, 伪位位维 苇谓伪蟼 位伪蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 慰蟺慰委慰蠀 蟿慰 蟺喂慰 蠁蟿蠅蠂蠈 蟽蟿蟻蠋渭伪 味蔚喂 蟽蔚 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蟽蠀谓胃萎魏蔚蟼, 渭蔚 伪尉喂慰蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟽伪谓 蔚蟺伪委蟿畏蟼.
螘魏 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏蟼 蠈蠄蔚蠅蟼 渭慰喂维味蔚喂 渭蔚 苇谓伪 维蠂伪蟻慰 尾喂尾位委慰 (蟺蠈蟽慰 纬慰畏蟿蔚蠀蟿喂魏蠈 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿畏 蠁蟿蠋蠂喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽畏;!), 蠈渭蠅蟼 魏位蔚委谓慰谓蟿维蟼 蟿慰 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿委味蔚蟽伪喂 魏伪喂 渭苇谓蔚喂蟼 谓伪 伪谓伪蟻蠅蟿喂苇蟽伪喂 蟺蠈蟽慰 蔚蠉魏慰位伪 畏 蟿蠉蠂畏 蠈位蠅谓 渭伪蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 渭喂伪 渭苇蟻伪 蟽蟿畏谓 维位位畏. 螌蟺蠅蟼 位苇蔚喂 魏伪喂 慰 螠伪魏蔚未蠈谓伪蟼 蟽蟿慰 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈 蟿蟻伪纬慰蠉未喂 :
鈥樷€欌€ξ撐�' 伪蠀蟿蠈 魏维蟿蟽蔚 魏伪位维
魏慰委蟿伪 位委纬慰 蠂伪渭畏位维
畏 味蠅萎 魏伪蟿蟻伪魏蠀位维蔚喂, 渭畏 位蔚蟼 蟺慰位位维鈥欌€�.
螝位蔚委谓蠅 渭蔚 苇谓伪 伪蟺蠈蟽蟺伪蟽渭伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位蔚委 蟿蟻慰蠁萎 纬喂伪 (蟺慰位位萎) 蟽魏苇蠄畏:
鈥樷€櫸犗佄澄嘉毕勎�, 伪谓 蠁蟻慰谓蟿委味蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 谓伪 渭畏谓 尉蔚蠂谓维 蠈蟿喂 慰 伪位萎蟿畏蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺伪蟻维 渭蠈谓慰 苇谓伪蟼 维谓蔚蟻纬慰蟼 螁纬纬位慰蟼, 蟺慰蠀 慰 谓蠈渭慰蟼 蟿慰谓 伪谓伪纬魏维味蔚喂 谓伪 味蔚喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位伪谓蠋渭蔚谓慰蟼, 蟿蠈蟿蔚 慰 <<伪位萎蟿畏蟼-蟿苇蟻伪蟼>> 蟺维蔚喂 蟺蔚蟻委蟺伪蟿慰. 螖蔚谓 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻委味慰渭伪喂 尾蔚尾伪委蠅蟼 蠈蟿喂 慰喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 伪位萎蟿蔚蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 喂未伪谓喂魏慰委 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼. 违蟺慰蟽蟿畏蟻委味蠅 伪蟺位蠋蟼 蠈蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂慰位慰纬喂魏苇蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蠀蟺维蟻尉蔚喂蟼 魏伪喂 蠈蟿喂, 伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蠂蔚喂蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 伪蟺蠈 维位位慰蠀蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼, 伪蠀蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蟺慰蟿苇位蔚蟽渭伪 魏伪喂 蠈蠂喂 伪喂蟿委伪 蟿慰蠀 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蠀 味蠅萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 味慰蠀谓. 危蠀谓蔚蟺蠋蟼, 畏 伪谓蟿委位畏蠄畏 <<蟿伪 胃蔚位伪谓 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蟺伪胃伪谓>>, 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 慰蟺慰委伪 伪谓蟿喂渭蔚蟿蠅蟺委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蠀谓萎胃蠅蟼 慰喂 伪位萎蟿蔚蟼, 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺喂慰 未委魏伪喂畏 伪蟺鈥� 蠈蟿喂 胃伪 萎蟿伪谓 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蔚 伪谓维蟺畏蟻慰蠀蟼 萎 伪蟽胃蔚谓蔚委蟼鈥欌€�.
螘委谓伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 魏位蔚委谓慰谓蟿维蟼 蟿慰 谓喂蠋胃蔚喂蟼 蟺蠅蟼 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蟺维蔚喂 苇谓伪 尾萎渭伪 蟺伪蟻伪蟺苇蟻伪 蟿畏谓 蟽魏苇蠄畏 蟽慰蠀, 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 魏伪位位喂蔚蟻纬萎蟽蔚喂 蟿畏谓 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏萎 蟽慰蠀 蔚谓蟽蠀谓伪委蟽胃畏蟽畏 魏伪喂 苇蠂蔚喂蟼 蟺维蟻蔚喂 伪蟺伪谓蟿萎蟽蔚喂蟼 蟽蔚 蔚蟻蠅蟿萎蟽蔚喂蟼 (未蠀蟽蟿蠀蠂蠋蟼 慰蟻渭蠋渭蔚谓蔚蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟺蟻慰魏伪蟿伪位萎蠄蔚喂蟼) 蟺慰蠀 蔚委蠂蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蔚蟽蠉 慰 委未喂慰蟼; 危委纬慰蠀蟻伪 谓伪喂.
螌蟿伪谓 胃伪 蔚委蟽蟿蔚 蟽蔚 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位喂慰蟺蠅位蔚委慰, 伪谓 蟿蠉蠂蔚喂 魏伪喂 尉蔚蠁蠀位位委蟽蔚蟿蔚 蟿慰 蟽蠀纬魏蔚魏蟻喂渭苇谓慰 尾喂尾位委慰, 蟻委尉蟿蔚 渭喂伪 渭伪蟿喂维 蟽蟿伪 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪 22, 36 魏伪喂 38. 螌位蔚蟼 慰喂 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻伪蠁苇蟼 蟿畏蟼 伪胃位喂蠈蟿畏蟿伪蟼, 蟿蠅谓 蟽蟿蔚蟻萎蟽蔚蠅谓, 蟿畏 尾蟻蠅渭喂维蟼, 蟿畏蟼 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪蟼, 蟿慰蠀 蔚尉蔚蠀蟿蔚位喂蟽渭慰蠉, 蟿畏蟼 蔚魏渭蔚蟿维位位蔚蠀蟽畏蟼 魏伪喂 蟿畏蟼 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽畏蟼 蟺慰蠀 蟺蔚蟻喂纬蟻维蠁慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 伪蟺慰蟽魏慰蟺慰蠉谓 蟽蟿畏谓 未喂伪蟿蠉蟺蠅蟽畏 蟿蠅谓 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿喂蟽渭蠋谓 蟺慰蠀 伪谓伪蟺蟿蠉蟽蟽慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蔚 伪蠀蟿维 蟿伪 魏蔚蠁维位伪喂伪.
螤蟻蠈魏蔚喂蟿伪喂 纬喂伪 渭喂伪 喂未喂伪委蟿蔚蟻畏 渭蔚委尉畏 未畏渭慰蟽喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏萎蟼 苇蟻蔚蠀谓伪蟼, 畏渭蔚蟻慰位慰纬喂伪魏萎蟼 魏伪蟿伪纬蟻伪蠁萎蟼, 伪蠀蟿慰尾喂慰纬蟻伪蠁喂魏蠋谓 蟽蟿慰喂蠂蔚委蠅谓 魏伪喂 魏慰喂谓蠅谓喂魏慰蠉 蟽蠂慰位喂伪蟽渭慰蠉. 螣 螌蟻纬慰蠀蔚位 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位伪谓喂苇蟿伪喂 蟽蟿慰 螤伪蟻委蟽喂 魏伪喂 蟿慰 螞慰谓未委谓慰 蟿慰蠀 螠蔚蟽慰蟺慰位苇渭慰蠀, 蟿畏谓 蟺蔚蟻委慰未慰 蟺慰蠀 畏 伪谓蔚蟻纬委伪 胃蔚蟻委味蔚喂, 魏伪喂 蟺伪蟻苇伪 渭蔚 维位位慰蠀蟼 蔚尉伪胃位喂蠅渭苇谓慰蠀蟼 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 蠁蟿蠋蠂蔚喂伪 蟽蠀谓慰未慰喂蟺蠈蟻慰蠀蟼 蟿慰蠀, 蟺伪蟽蠂委味蔚喂 谓伪 蔚尉伪蟽蠁伪位委蟽蔚喂 魏维胃蔚 尾蟻维未蠀 苇谓伪 魏伪蟿维位蠀渭伪 谓伪 魏慰喂渭畏胃蔚委, 蟺慰位位苇蟼 蠁慰蟻苇蟼 渭苇谓慰谓蟿伪蟼 谓畏蟽蟿喂魏蠈蟼 纬喂伪 蠅蟼 魏伪喂 蟺苇谓蟿蔚 渭苇蟻蔚蟼 魏伪喂 蠀蟺慰蠁苇蟻慰谓蟿伪蟼 伪谓蠀蟺苇蟻尾位畏蟿蔚蟼 蟽蟿蔚蟻萎蟽蔚喂蟼.
螤慰位喂蟿喂蟽渭苇谓慰蟼 位伪蠈蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蠀蟿蠈蟼 蟺慰蠀 伪魏慰蠉蔚喂 蠈蟺蔚蟻伪, 未喂伪尾维味蔚喂 蠄伪纬渭苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委伪, 蠄蠀蠂伪纬蠅纬蔚委蟿伪喂 尾位苇蟺慰谓蟿伪蟼 蟿伪喂谓委蔚蟼 蟿慰蠀 韦伪蟻伪谓蟿委谓慰 魏伪喂 蟿慰蠀 螝喂慰蠉渭蟺蟻喂魏 魏伪喂 蟽蠀纬魏喂谓蔚委蟿伪喂 伪蟺蠈 蟺委谓伪魏蔚蟼 魏伪喂 苇蟻纬伪 蟿苇蠂谓畏蟼 蟽蟿喂蟼 纬魏伪位蔚蟻委, 伪位位维 苇谓伪蟼 位伪蠈蟼 蟿慰蠀 慰蟺慰委慰蠀 蟿慰 蟺喂慰 蠁蟿蠅蠂蠈 蟽蟿蟻蠋渭伪 味蔚喂 蟽蔚 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蟽蠀谓胃萎魏蔚蟼, 渭蔚 伪尉喂慰蟺蟻苇蟺蔚喂伪 魏伪喂 蠂蠅蟻委蟼 谓伪 蟽蟿喂纬渭伪蟿委味蔚蟿伪喂 蟽伪谓 蔚蟺伪委蟿畏蟼.
螘魏 蟺蟻蠋蟿畏蟼 蠈蠄蔚蠅蟼 渭慰喂维味蔚喂 渭蔚 苇谓伪 维蠂伪蟻慰 尾喂尾位委慰 (蟺蠈蟽慰 纬慰畏蟿蔚蠀蟿喂魏蠈 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 蔚委谓伪喂 苇谓伪 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 蟺蟻伪纬渭伪蟿蔚蠉蔚蟿伪喂 蟿畏 蠁蟿蠋蠂喂伪 魏伪喂 蟿畏谓 蔚尉伪胃位委蠅蟽畏;!), 蠈渭蠅蟼 魏位蔚委谓慰谓蟿维蟼 蟿慰 蟺蟻慰尾位畏渭伪蟿委味蔚蟽伪喂 魏伪喂 渭苇谓蔚喂蟼 谓伪 伪谓伪蟻蠅蟿喂苇蟽伪喂 蟺蠈蟽慰 蔚蠉魏慰位伪 畏 蟿蠉蠂畏 蠈位蠅谓 渭伪蟼 渭蟺慰蟻蔚委 谓伪 伪位位维尉蔚喂 伪蟺蠈 蟿畏 渭喂伪 渭苇蟻伪 蟽蟿畏谓 维位位畏. 螌蟺蠅蟼 位苇蔚喂 魏伪喂 慰 螠伪魏蔚未蠈谓伪蟼 蟽蟿慰 纬谓蠅蟽蟿蠈 蟿蟻伪纬慰蠉未喂 :
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魏慰委蟿伪 位委纬慰 蠂伪渭畏位维
畏 味蠅萎 魏伪蟿蟻伪魏蠀位维蔚喂, 渭畏 位蔚蟼 蟺慰位位维鈥欌€�.
螝位蔚委谓蠅 渭蔚 苇谓伪 伪蟺蠈蟽蟺伪蟽渭伪 伪蟺蠈 蟿慰 尾喂尾位委慰 蟺慰蠀 伪蟺慰蟿蔚位蔚委 蟿蟻慰蠁萎 纬喂伪 (蟺慰位位萎) 蟽魏苇蠄畏:
鈥樷€櫸犗佄澄嘉毕勎�, 伪谓 蠁蟻慰谓蟿委味蔚喂 魏伪谓蔚委蟼 谓伪 渭畏谓 尉蔚蠂谓维 蠈蟿喂 慰 伪位萎蟿畏蟼 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺伪蟻维 渭蠈谓慰 苇谓伪蟼 维谓蔚蟻纬慰蟼 螁纬纬位慰蟼, 蟺慰蠀 慰 谓蠈渭慰蟼 蟿慰谓 伪谓伪纬魏维味蔚喂 谓伪 味蔚喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟺位伪谓蠋渭蔚谓慰蟼, 蟿蠈蟿蔚 慰 <<伪位萎蟿畏蟼-蟿苇蟻伪蟼>> 蟺维蔚喂 蟺蔚蟻委蟺伪蟿慰. 螖蔚谓 喂蟽蠂蠀蟻委味慰渭伪喂 尾蔚尾伪委蠅蟼 蠈蟿喂 慰喂 蟺蔚蟻喂蟽蟽蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 伪位萎蟿蔚蟼 蔚委谓伪喂 喂未伪谓喂魏慰委 蠂伪蟻伪魏蟿萎蟻蔚蟼. 违蟺慰蟽蟿畏蟻委味蠅 伪蟺位蠋蟼 蠈蟿喂 蔚委谓伪喂 蠁蠀蟽喂慰位慰纬喂魏苇蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺喂谓蔚蟼 蠀蟺维蟻尉蔚喂蟼 魏伪喂 蠈蟿喂, 伪谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蠂蔚喂蟻蠈蟿蔚蟻慰喂 伪蟺蠈 维位位慰蠀蟼 伪谓胃蟻蠋蟺慰蠀蟼, 伪蠀蟿蠈 蔚委谓伪喂 伪蟺慰蟿苇位蔚蟽渭伪 魏伪喂 蠈蠂喂 伪喂蟿委伪 蟿慰蠀 蟿蟻蠈蟺慰蠀 味蠅萎蟼 蟺慰蠀 味慰蠀谓. 危蠀谓蔚蟺蠋蟼, 畏 伪谓蟿委位畏蠄畏 <<蟿伪 胃蔚位伪谓 魏伪喂 蟿伪 蟺伪胃伪谓>>, 渭蔚 蟿畏谓 慰蟺慰委伪 伪谓蟿喂渭蔚蟿蠅蟺委味慰谓蟿伪喂 蟽蠀谓萎胃蠅蟼 慰喂 伪位萎蟿蔚蟼, 未蔚谓 蔚委谓伪喂 蟺喂慰 未委魏伪喂畏 伪蟺鈥� 蠈蟿喂 胃伪 萎蟿伪谓 伪蟺苇谓伪谓蟿喂 蟽蔚 伪谓维蟺畏蟻慰蠀蟼 萎 伪蟽胃蔚谓蔚委蟼鈥欌€�.
January 18, 2022
Kako da se udam za vojnika, kad ja volim 膷itav puk?
Odavno ne拧to originalnije nisam pro膷itao kada je u pitanju glad, iznurenost i trula bijeda. Napisati knjigu sa dvadeset devet godina koliko je tada Orvel imao kada je ona objavljena i da stranice prosto klize, da re膷enice imaju punotu opipljivog i da suptilno prilaze izrabljivanju i radu i uop拧te dru拧tvenom kretanju kao takvom, za mene nije mala stvar. Roman me dosta podsje膰a na re膷enicu s po膷etka filma Los Olvidados, Luisa Bunjuela, u parafrazi: 鈥淪koro svaka prestonica kao Njujork, Pariz, London krije, iza svog bogatstva, siroma拧ne domove gdje su slabo uhranjena djeca, li拧ena zdravlja ili obrazovanja, osu膽ena na kriminal...Meksiko, veliki moderan grad, nije izuzetak ovog pravila.鈥�
Orvel ne budi vjeru u iznenadnost nastanka ne膷ega 膷udesnog i velikog niti da elementima slijepog nereda i zanosnog nespokoja poku拧a da 膷itaoca baci u iluzornu pojavu savr拧enog. U Parizu je akcenat stavljen na rad, dok se u Londonu Orvel vi拧e koncentri拧e na skitanje i besku膰nike. Koliko god bijeda bila lo拧a, Orvel joj pristupa kao okviru u kome jedinku pro啪ima olak拧anje, pa gotovo i katarza 拧to se nalazi na dnu. Njegova budu膰nost je poni拧tena i njega kao takvog obuhvata ravnodu拧nost. Pri tome ovo nije jednostavno jer treba izdr啪ati gladovanje i dosadu, i da jo拧 ima拧 na umu da si zaista u bijedi, da nema拧 kuda. Orvel je poku拧ao da prona膽e kop膷u koja bi bila zajedni膷ka za ono 拧to se naziva 鈥渘ormalan rad鈥� i 鈥減ristojan 啪ivot鈥� ali on je samo nailazio na ogroman me膽uprostor te dvije sintagme te da bi mogu膰nost odsustva prekomjernog rada samo ugrozilo bogata拧evu sloboda: 鈥淶ato imu膰niji ljudi samo i govore o pobolj拧anju uslova rada, 啪ivota itd鈥︹€� 膶ini se da je ovo zaista jedan beskompromisan roman pa svidilo se to nekome ili ne, on vojuje za ve膰e dostojanstvo i ve膰i zna膷aj 膷ovjeka.
January 24, 2020
丌爻 賵 倬丕爻 丿乇 倬丕乇蹖爻 賵 賱賳丿賳,丕賵賱蹖賳 乇賲丕賳 賲賵賮賯 噩賵乇噩 丕乇賵賱=丕乇蹖讴 丕乇鬲賵乇 亘賱乇(賳丕賲 丨賯蹖賯蹖,亘賴 毓賱鬲 鬲乇爻 丕夭 亘蹖 丕亘乇賵蹖蹖 賲賵賯毓 趩丕倬 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 丕夭 賳丕賲 賲爻鬲毓丕乇 噩乇噩 丕乇賵賱 丕爻鬲賮丕丿賴 讴乇丿!)
鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖 賵 賮賯乇 胤賵乇蹖 賴賳乇賲賳丿丕賳賴 賵 丨賯蹖賯蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 丕賵賲丿賴 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇賵 亘賴 禺賳丿賴 賲蹖賳丿丕夭賴,賵 丕蹖賳 賳賴丕蹖鬲 賯丿乇鬲 蹖賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 爻鬲!
丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 胤亘賯 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩乇噩 丕乇賵賱 賴爻鬲..賵 賵丕賯毓丕 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 蹖讴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 倬卮鬲 丿乇 賴丕蹖 亘爻鬲賴 賳賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 讴鬲丕亘 亘賳賵蹖爻賴..賵 賯丿乇鬲 賯賱賲 蹖讴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賳卮丕 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 噩丕賳 賲蹖賳卮蹖賳賴.
丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 賵 丿禺鬲乇 讴卮蹖卮,亘蹖卮鬲乇 賯丕亘賱 丨爻 賵 賱賲爻 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵夭賲乇賴 丕賳丿..賵 亘賳馗乇 賲賳 倬丕乇鬲 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丕夭 乇賵丨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 乇賵 丿乇 禺賵丿卮賵賳 丿丕乇賳..
鬲賵蹖 丕蹖賳 讴鬲丕亘 亘丿亘禺鬲蹖 賵 賮賯乇 胤賵乇蹖 賴賳乇賲賳丿丕賳賴 賵 丨賯蹖賯蹖 亘賴 鬲氐賵蹖乇 丕賵賲丿賴 讴賴 禺賵丕賳賳丿賴 乇賵 亘賴 禺賳丿賴 賲蹖賳丿丕夭賴,賵 丕蹖賳 賳賴丕蹖鬲 賯丿乇鬲 蹖賴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 爻鬲!
丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 胤亘賯 夭賳丿诏蹖 噩乇噩 丕乇賵賱 賴爻鬲..賵 賵丕賯毓丕 睾蹖乇 丕夭 丕蹖賳 賳蹖爻鬲 讴賴 蹖讴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 倬卮鬲 丿乇 賴丕蹖 亘爻鬲賴 賳賲蹖鬲賵賳賴 讴鬲丕亘 亘賳賵蹖爻賴..賵 賯丿乇鬲 賯賱賲 蹖讴 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 賵賯鬲蹖 丕夭 賵丕賯毓蹖鬲 夭賳丿诏蹖 賲賳卮丕 賲蹖诏蹖乇賴 丕爻鬲 讴賴 亘乇 噩丕賳 賲蹖賳卮蹖賳賴.
丕蹖賳 丕孬乇 賵 丿禺鬲乇 讴卮蹖卮,亘蹖卮鬲乇 賯丕亘賱 丨爻 賵 賱賲爻 丿乇 夭賳丿诏蹖 乇賵夭賲乇賴 丕賳丿..賵 亘賳馗乇 賲賳 倬丕乇鬲 亘蹖卮鬲乇蹖 丕夭 乇賵丨 賳賵蹖爻賳丿賴 乇賵 丿乇 禺賵丿卮賵賳 丿丕乇賳..
May 7, 2024
鬲噩乇亘丞 丨賷丕鬲賷丞 孬乇賷丞 賲乇 亘賴丕 丕賱賰丕鬲亘 丕賱賰亘賷乇 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丕鬲 丨賷丕鬲賴 匕丕賯 禺賱丕賱賴丕 賲乇丕乇丞 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱丨丕噩丞 賲賲丕 賰丕賳 賱賴 賰亘賷乇 丕賱兀孬乇 賮賷 賮賰乇賴 賵卮禺氐賷鬲賴 賱亘丕賯賷 丨賷丕鬲賴.
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱兀賵賱 乇兀賷鬲 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賲馗賱賲 賵丕賱亘丕卅爻 賲賳 亘丕乇賷爻 丕賱賲丕孬賱丞 兀賲丕賲賳丕 丿丕卅賲丕賸 賰賳賲賵匕噩 賲孬丕賱賷 賱賱噩賲丕賱 賵丕賱乇賯賷. 匕賱賰 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賲馗賱賲 丕賱匕賷 毓丕氐乇賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱 亘丨賰賲 丕囟胤乇丕乇賴 廿賱賶 丕賱鬲賳賯賱 亘賷賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱丿購賳賷丕 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 丨賷丕鬲賴.
賷賳夭毓 兀賵乇賵賷賱 毓賳 賲胤丕毓賲 亘丕乇賷爻 賵丕賱鬲賷 毓賲賱 亘賴丕 睾丕爻賱丕賸 賱賱氐丨賵賳 賯賳丕毓 丕賱乇購賯賷 賵丕賱賮禺丕賲丞 丕賱匕賷 胤丕賱賲丕 爻賲毓賳丕 毓賳賴. 賵賳賰鬲卮賮 兀賳 禺賱賮 賴匕丕 丕賱賲馗賴乇 丕賱亘乇賾丕賯 賱賱胤亘賯 丕賱亘丕賴馗 丕賱孬賲賳 賲胤亘禺丕賸 賯匕乇丕賸 賱丕 賷購乇丕毓賷 兀丿賳賶 賯賵丕毓丿 丕賱賳馗丕賮丞.
賱丕 兀乇賷丿 兀賳 兀孬賷乇 睾孬賷丕賳 賲賳 賷賯乇兀 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞貙 賵賱賰賳 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賱賲 賷購賯氐乇 賮賷 賵氐賮 丕賱賰賵丕賱賷爻 丕賱禺賱賮賷丞 賱鬲賱賰 丕賱賲胤丕亘禺 賵賱丕 毓賳 馗乇賵賮 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱賲賮夭毓丞 賱賲賳 賷毓賲賱賵賳 亘賴丕 賮賷 賵賯鬲 丕賯丕賲鬲賴 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳賷丕鬲.
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賷毓賵丿 兀賵乇賵賷賱 廿賱賶 賵胤賳賴 廿賱賶 賱賳丿賳 毓賱賶 賵毓丿 亘丕賱鬲丨丕賯賴 亘賵馗賷賮丞 匕丕鬲 賲乇鬲亘 賲丨鬲乇賲 賵賯丿 馗賳 兀賳賴 賵噩丿 亘賴丕 賲禺乇噩丕購 賲賳 丨賷丕丞 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱鬲賷 匕丕賯賴丕 賮賷 亘丕乇賷爻. 賵賷賮丕噩兀 亘鬲亘禺乇 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮乇氐丞 賱丿賶 毓賱賲賴 亘爻賮乇 兀氐丨丕亘 鬲賱賰 丕賱賵馗賷賮丞.
賷囟胤乇 賱賱噩賵亍 廿賱賶 毓賷卮 丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲卮乇丿 賵賳乇賶 賲毓賴 兀賷囟丕 賲丕 賷禺鬲亘卅 禺賱賮 賲馗賴乇 丕賱賲鬲卮乇丿 丕賱乇孬 丕賱賯匕乇 丕賱賲孬賷乇 賱賱卮賮賯丞.
賷鬲毓乇賮 丕賱賲丐賱賮 毓賱賶 賳賲丕匕噩 毓丿丞 賱賱賲卮乇丿賷賳貙 賵毓賱賶 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 乇賲鬲 亘賴賲 廿賱賶 乇氐賷賮 丕賱卮丕乇毓. 賵賰賷賮 賷鬲丨丕賷賱賵賳 毓賱賶 馗乇賵賮 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賯丕爻賷丞 亘丕賱爻乇賯丞 賲乇丞 賵亘丕賱鬲爻賵賱 賲乇丕鬲. 賵賷噩乇亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 賲賱丕噩卅 丕賱廿毓丕賱丞 賱賱賲卮乇丿賷賳 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 鬲禺鬲賱賮 賰孬賷乇丕 毓賳 兀乇氐賮丞 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 丕賱賯匕乇丞.
賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賷禺賱氐 兀賵乇賵賷賱 亘兀賳 丨賱 賲卮賰賱丞 賲卮乇丿賷 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賱賷爻鬲 賮賷 賲噩乇丿 賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丞 丕賱賲賮鬲毓賱丞 賱廿胤毓丕賲賴賲 睾孬 丕賱胤毓丕賲-賵兀鬲丨丿孬 賴賳丕 毓賳 亘乇賷胤丕賳賷丕 賮賷 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱賲丕囟賷- 賵賱賰賳 賮賷 賲丨丕賵賱丞 丕爻鬲睾賱丕賱 胤丕賯鬲賴賲 賮賷 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰賮賱 賱賴賲 胤毓丕賲賴賲 賲孬賱 丕賱夭乇丕毓丞. 廿匕 兀賳 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賯丿 禺賱氐 廿賱賶 兀賳 賲毓馗賲 賲賳 丕毓鬲丕丿 丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲卮乇丿 賱賳 賷乇囟賶 亘兀賳 賷賱鬲夭賲 賮賷 毓賲賱 賷賯賷丿賴. 賵賱賰賳賴 賲賳 丕賱賲賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賰賱賮 亘兀毓賲丕賱 匕丕鬲 胤亘賷毓丞 賲丐賯鬲丞 兀賵 亘爻賷胤丞 鬲丐賲賳 丕賱丨丿 丕賱兀丿賳賷 賲賳 丕賱兀丿賲賷丞 賱賴賲.
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱氐毓亘丞. 賰賲丕 賳賯賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲氐胤賱丨丕鬲 丕賱兀噩賳亘賷丞 賰賲丕 賴賶 亘丿賵賳 兀賳 賷丨賮賱 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕. 賵賰丕賳 匕賱賰 賴賵 賲兀禺匕賷 丕賱賵丨賷丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘.
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱兀賵賱 乇兀賷鬲 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賲馗賱賲 賵丕賱亘丕卅爻 賲賳 亘丕乇賷爻 丕賱賲丕孬賱丞 兀賲丕賲賳丕 丿丕卅賲丕賸 賰賳賲賵匕噩 賲孬丕賱賷 賱賱噩賲丕賱 賵丕賱乇賯賷. 匕賱賰 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱賲馗賱賲 丕賱匕賷 毓丕氐乇賴 兀賵乇賵賷賱 亘丨賰賲 丕囟胤乇丕乇賴 廿賱賶 丕賱鬲賳賯賱 亘賷賳 賲禺鬲賱賮 丕賱賵馗丕卅賮 丕賱丿購賳賷丕 賮賷 亘丿丕賷丞 丨賷丕鬲賴.
賷賳夭毓 兀賵乇賵賷賱 毓賳 賲胤丕毓賲 亘丕乇賷爻 賵丕賱鬲賷 毓賲賱 亘賴丕 睾丕爻賱丕賸 賱賱氐丨賵賳 賯賳丕毓 丕賱乇購賯賷 賵丕賱賮禺丕賲丞 丕賱匕賷 胤丕賱賲丕 爻賲毓賳丕 毓賳賴. 賵賳賰鬲卮賮 兀賳 禺賱賮 賴匕丕 丕賱賲馗賴乇 丕賱亘乇賾丕賯 賱賱胤亘賯 丕賱亘丕賴馗 丕賱孬賲賳 賲胤亘禺丕賸 賯匕乇丕賸 賱丕 賷購乇丕毓賷 兀丿賳賶 賯賵丕毓丿 丕賱賳馗丕賮丞.
賱丕 兀乇賷丿 兀賳 兀孬賷乇 睾孬賷丕賳 賲賳 賷賯乇兀 丕賱賲乇丕噩毓丞貙 賵賱賰賳 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賱賲 賷購賯氐乇 賮賷 賵氐賮 丕賱賰賵丕賱賷爻 丕賱禺賱賮賷丞 賱鬲賱賰 丕賱賲胤丕亘禺 賵賱丕 毓賳 馗乇賵賮 丕賱毓賲賱 丕賱賲賮夭毓丞 賱賲賳 賷毓賲賱賵賳 亘賴丕 賮賷 賵賯鬲 丕賯丕賲鬲賴 賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱毓卮乇賷賳賷丕鬲.
賮賷 丕賱噩夭亍 丕賱孬丕賳賷 賷毓賵丿 兀賵乇賵賷賱 廿賱賶 賵胤賳賴 廿賱賶 賱賳丿賳 毓賱賶 賵毓丿 亘丕賱鬲丨丕賯賴 亘賵馗賷賮丞 匕丕鬲 賲乇鬲亘 賲丨鬲乇賲 賵賯丿 馗賳 兀賳賴 賵噩丿 亘賴丕 賲禺乇噩丕購 賲賳 丨賷丕丞 丕賱噩賵毓 賵丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱鬲賷 匕丕賯賴丕 賮賷 亘丕乇賷爻. 賵賷賮丕噩兀 亘鬲亘禺乇 鬲賱賰 丕賱賮乇氐丞 賱丿賶 毓賱賲賴 亘爻賮乇 兀氐丨丕亘 鬲賱賰 丕賱賵馗賷賮丞.
賷囟胤乇 賱賱噩賵亍 廿賱賶 毓賷卮 丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲卮乇丿 賵賳乇賶 賲毓賴 兀賷囟丕 賲丕 賷禺鬲亘卅 禺賱賮 賲馗賴乇 丕賱賲鬲卮乇丿 丕賱乇孬 丕賱賯匕乇 丕賱賲孬賷乇 賱賱卮賮賯丞.
賷鬲毓乇賮 丕賱賲丐賱賮 毓賱賶 賳賲丕匕噩 毓丿丞 賱賱賲卮乇丿賷賳貙 賵毓賱賶 丕賱兀爻亘丕亘 丕賱賲禺鬲賱賮丞 丕賱鬲賷 乇賲鬲 亘賴賲 廿賱賶 乇氐賷賮 丕賱卮丕乇毓. 賵賰賷賮 賷鬲丨丕賷賱賵賳 毓賱賶 馗乇賵賮 丨賷丕鬲賴賲 丕賱賯丕爻賷丞 亘丕賱爻乇賯丞 賲乇丞 賵亘丕賱鬲爻賵賱 賲乇丕鬲. 賵賷噩乇亘 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賮賷 賲賱丕噩卅 丕賱廿毓丕賱丞 賱賱賲卮乇丿賷賳 賵丕賱鬲賷 賱丕 鬲禺鬲賱賮 賰孬賷乇丕 毓賳 兀乇氐賮丞 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 丕賱賯匕乇丞.
賮賷 賳賴丕賷丞 鬲賱賰 丕賱鬲噩乇亘丞 賷禺賱氐 兀賵乇賵賷賱 亘兀賳 丨賱 賲卮賰賱丞 賲卮乇丿賷 丕賱卮賵丕乇毓 賱賷爻鬲 賮賷 賲噩乇丿 賲丨丕賵賱丕鬲 丕賱丨賰賵賲丞 丕賱賲賮鬲毓賱丞 賱廿胤毓丕賲賴賲 睾孬 丕賱胤毓丕賲-賵兀鬲丨丿孬 賴賳丕 毓賳 亘乇賷胤丕賳賷丕 賮賷 丕賱孬賱丕孬賷賳丕鬲 賲賳 丕賱賯乇賳 丕賱賲丕囟賷- 賵賱賰賳 賮賷 賲丨丕賵賱丞 丕爻鬲睾賱丕賱 胤丕賯鬲賴賲 賮賷 丕賱兀毓賲丕賱 丕賱鬲賷 鬲賰賮賱 賱賴賲 胤毓丕賲賴賲 賲孬賱 丕賱夭乇丕毓丞. 廿匕 兀賳 兀賵乇賵賷賱 賯丿 禺賱氐 廿賱賶 兀賳 賲毓馗賲 賲賳 丕毓鬲丕丿 丨賷丕丞 丕賱鬲卮乇丿 賱賳 賷乇囟賶 亘兀賳 賷賱鬲夭賲 賮賷 毓賲賱 賷賯賷丿賴. 賵賱賰賳賴 賲賳 丕賱賲賲賰賳 兀賳 賷賰賱賮 亘兀毓賲丕賱 匕丕鬲 胤亘賷毓丞 賲丐賯鬲丞 兀賵 亘爻賷胤丞 鬲丐賲賳 丕賱丨丿 丕賱兀丿賳賷 賲賳 丕賱兀丿賲賷丞 賱賴賲.
丕賱鬲乇噩賲丞 賰丕賳鬲 賲賱賷卅丞 亘丕賱賰賱賲丕鬲 丕賱氐毓亘丞. 賰賲丕 賳賯賱 丕賱賲鬲乇噩賲 丕賱毓丿賷丿 賲賳 丕賱賲氐胤賱丨丕鬲 丕賱兀噩賳亘賷丞 賰賲丕 賴賶 亘丿賵賳 兀賳 賷丨賮賱 亘鬲乇噩賲鬲賴丕. 賵賰丕賳 匕賱賰 賴賵 賲兀禺匕賷 丕賱賵丨賷丿 毓賱賶 丕賱賰鬲丕亘.
January 30, 2023
鈥淚t is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs 鈥� and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it.鈥�
While best known for 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is a fantastic essayist. In Down and Out in Paris and London, he chronicles the struggles of those barely getting enough to survive. At the time, that included our narrator/a fictional version of George Orwell. The narrator details his own trajectory as he slides into near starvation. Orwell approaches this slide from a psychological perspective that was both fascinating and a punch in the gut. In the last section of the book, Orwell discusses his ideas for alleviating this extreme poverty.
鈥淚f you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.鈥�
While best known for 1984 and Animal Farm, George Orwell is a fantastic essayist. In Down and Out in Paris and London, he chronicles the struggles of those barely getting enough to survive. At the time, that included our narrator/a fictional version of George Orwell. The narrator details his own trajectory as he slides into near starvation. Orwell approaches this slide from a psychological perspective that was both fascinating and a punch in the gut. In the last section of the book, Orwell discusses his ideas for alleviating this extreme poverty.
鈥淚f you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.鈥�
February 21, 2012
The film Midnight in Paris begins with some beautiful scenes of Paris: the Louvre, Notre Dame, the Seine, the Sorbonne, the Eiffle Tower, the arc de triomphe. And before long, arrives a parade of artistes from the 1920s milieu - Hemmingway, Bunuel, Dali, etc, - all speaking *SparkNotes*. But in the distant background (very distant) I hear a faint sound of et in arcadia ego and Orwell protests 鈥渟ay, I was there in the 1920s too - I saw all that. And I wrote a damn fine book about it鈥�.
That book is Down and Out in Paris and London, written later on in England (he wrote 2 books while in Paris but he destroyed them after one rejection. He regretted doing that).
If I were to take a stroll, 脿 la 鈥淢idnight in Paris鈥�, I might find myself on 6 rue du Pot de Fer, 1928:
No Peugeots here. Orwell was not living a glamourous life. He had recently thrown away a promising career in Burma, and was determined to make it as a writer or die trying.
He published a few articles, but soon runs out of money and must find work. He takes a job (as a foreigner, 鈥渘ot seriously illegal鈥�) washing dishes at the luxury hotel Lotti in 1929. That experience is the 鈥楶aris鈥� segment of the book.
He returns to England at the end of the year and 鈥渢ramps鈥� around with the down and out for the 鈥楲ondon鈥� part.
The lifestyle of a tramp was unhealthy and mean. One "ate cat's meat, and wore newspaper instead of underclothes, and used the wainscoting of his room for firewood, and made himself a pair of trousers out of a sack".
It is boring, "a tramp's sufferings are entirely useless. He lives a fantastically disagreeable life, and lives it to no purpose whatever."
It is exhausting, "he had not eaten since the morning, had walked several miles with a twisted leg, his clothes were drenched, and he had a halfpenny between himself and starvation."
And it is no fun, "tramps are cut off from women".
On the bright side, "poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."
鈥淚t is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty鈥攊t is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it, is all so utterly and prosaically different.
You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.鈥�
The first version of Down and Out is completed by Oct 1930, under the name George Orwell (used for the first time, to protect his upper lower middle class parents). The French translation La Vache Enrag茅e is published in 1935.
Orwell鈥檚 inspirations for this book, indeed this life:
Themes:
impoverishment, failure, privation, penury, leftovers, overextended, pennilessness, beggary, pauperism, difficulties, reduced circumstances, hunger, lack, want, dearth, depletion, exhaustion, vacuity, meagerness, dogged, indigent, impecuniousness, need, hardship, suffering, misery, dirt, filth, grime, lowness, grunge, muck, dust, rats, bugs, vermin, trapped, penury, destitution, greasiness, smelly icky slums, vagrancy, exiguity, mendicancy, down, out, crust-wiping, and all things squalid
That book is Down and Out in Paris and London, written later on in England (he wrote 2 books while in Paris but he destroyed them after one rejection. He regretted doing that).
If I were to take a stroll, 脿 la 鈥淢idnight in Paris鈥�, I might find myself on 6 rue du Pot de Fer, 1928:
鈥楽alope! Salope! How many times have I told you not to squash bugs on the wallpaper? Do you think you鈥檝e bought the hotel, eh? Why can鈥檛 you throw them out of the window like everyone else? Putain! Salope!鈥� The woman on the third floor: 鈥榁ache!鈥�
Quarrels, and the desolate cries of street hawkers, and the shouts of children chasing orange-peel over the cobbles, and at night loud singing and the sour reek of the refuse-carts, made up the atmosphere of the street.
It was a very narrow street鈥攁 ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching towards one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse. All the houses were hotels and packed to the tiles with lodgers, mostly Poles, Arabs and Italians.
At the foot of the hotels were tiny bistros, where you could be drunk for the equivalent of a shilling. On Saturday nights about a third of the male population of the quarter was drunk. There was fighting over women, and the Arab navvies who lived in the cheapest hotels used to conduct mysterious feuds, and fight them out with chairs and occasionally revolvers.
At night the policemen would only come through the street two together. It was a fairly rackety place. And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. It was quite a representative Paris slum.
No Peugeots here. Orwell was not living a glamourous life. He had recently thrown away a promising career in Burma, and was determined to make it as a writer or die trying.
He published a few articles, but soon runs out of money and must find work. He takes a job (as a foreigner, 鈥渘ot seriously illegal鈥�) washing dishes at the luxury hotel Lotti in 1929. That experience is the 鈥楶aris鈥� segment of the book.
He returns to England at the end of the year and 鈥渢ramps鈥� around with the down and out for the 鈥楲ondon鈥� part.
The lifestyle of a tramp was unhealthy and mean. One "ate cat's meat, and wore newspaper instead of underclothes, and used the wainscoting of his room for firewood, and made himself a pair of trousers out of a sack".
It is boring, "a tramp's sufferings are entirely useless. He lives a fantastically disagreeable life, and lives it to no purpose whatever."
It is exhausting, "he had not eaten since the morning, had walked several miles with a twisted leg, his clothes were drenched, and he had a halfpenny between himself and starvation."
And it is no fun, "tramps are cut off from women".
On the bright side, "poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."
鈥淚t is altogether curious, your first contact with poverty. You have thought so much about poverty鈥攊t is the thing you have feared all your life, the thing you knew would happen to you sooner or later; and it, is all so utterly and prosaically different.
You thought it would be quite simple; it is extraordinarily complicated. You thought it would be terrible; it is merely squalid and boring. It is the peculiar lowness of poverty that you discover first; the shifts that it puts you to, the complicated meanness, the crust-wiping.鈥�
The first version of Down and Out is completed by Oct 1930, under the name George Orwell (used for the first time, to protect his upper lower middle class parents). The French translation La Vache Enrag茅e is published in 1935.
Orwell鈥檚 inspirations for this book, indeed this life:
Themes:
impoverishment, failure, privation, penury, leftovers, overextended, pennilessness, beggary, pauperism, difficulties, reduced circumstances, hunger, lack, want, dearth, depletion, exhaustion, vacuity, meagerness, dogged, indigent, impecuniousness, need, hardship, suffering, misery, dirt, filth, grime, lowness, grunge, muck, dust, rats, bugs, vermin, trapped, penury, destitution, greasiness, smelly icky slums, vagrancy, exiguity, mendicancy, down, out, crust-wiping, and all things squalid
March 28, 2023
"夭賳丿诏蹖 亘蹖賳賽 诏丿丕賴丕 賳卮賵賳賲 丿丕丿 讴賴 诏丿丕賴丕 鬲賮丕賵鬲蹖 亘丕 亘賯蹖賴 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏� 賳丿丕乇賳丿貙 賴乇趩賳丿 賴賲賴 賮讴乇 賲蹖鈥屭┵嗁嗀� 丕賳诏賱賽 噩丕賲毓賴 賴爻鬲賳丿 丕賲丕 賵賯鬲蹖 丿賯蹖賯 賳诏丕賴 讴賳蹖貙 賲蹖鈥屸€屫ㄛ屬嗃� 禺蹖賱蹖鈥屬囏й� 丿蹖诏賴 賴賲 丿乇 噩丕賲毓賴鈥屰� 丕賲乇賵夭蹖 丕賳诏賱鈥屫з嗀� 丕賲丕 趩賵賳 丿乇丌賲丿卮賵賳 禺賵亘賴貙 鬲丨賯蹖乇 賳賲蹖卮賳.
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鬲賳賴丕 诏賳丕賴 丕蹖賳 诏丿丕賴丕 丿乇 亘乇丕亘乇 丕蹖賳 丕賮乇丕丿 丕蹖賳賴 讴賴 卮睾賱蹖 乇賵 丕賳鬲禺丕亘 讴乇丿賳 讴賴 倬賵賱卮 讴賲賴.
丕诏乇 诏丿丕蹖蹖 卮睾賱蹖 亘丕 丿乇丌賲丿 亘丕賱丕 亘賵丿貙 诏丿丕賴丕 賲丨鬲乇賲鈥屫臂屬� 丕賳爻丕賳鈥屬囏й� 乇賵蹖 夭賲蹖賳 賲蹖鈥屫簇嗀�."
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賳孬乇 讴鬲丕亘 噩賵乇蹖 亘賵丿 讴賴 丕賳诏丕乇 禺賵丿賲 亘蹖鈥屫з嗁呚з嗃� 賵 賮賯乇 賵 賮賱丕讴鬲 乇賵 鬲噩乇亘賴 讴乇丿賲貙 鬲賵蹖 倬賳丕賴诏丕賴鈥屬囏й� 亘丿亘賵 賵 讴孬蹖賮貙 賲蹖賵賳賽 爻丕爻鈥屬囏� 禺賵丕亘蹖丿賲 賵 鬲賵蹖 賵丕賳賽 讴孬蹖賮 亘丕 丌亘賽 趩乇讴 賵 爻蹖丕賴 丨賲賵賲 讴乇丿賲貙 賱亘丕爻鈥屬囏з呝� 亘乇丕蹖 禺乇蹖丿 趩丕蹖 賵 賲丕乇诏丕乇蹖賳 诏乇賵 诏匕丕卮鬲賲貙 丕夭 丿賵爻鬲丕賲 倬賵賱 賯乇囟 讴乇丿賲 賵 亘賴 賳丕趩丕乇 爻丕毓丕鬲蹖 乇賵 亘乇丕蹖 禺賵乇丿賳 趩丕蹖 賵 亘蹖爻讴賵蹖蹖鬲賽 乇丕蹖诏丕賳 賲噩亘賵乇 亘賴 鬲丨賲賱賽 賲乇丕爻賲賽 丿毓丕 卮丿賲.
丕賵乇賵賱賽 毓夭蹖夭貙 丕賱丕賳 賲賳 賴賲 賲孬賱 鬲賵 丿蹖丿賲 賳爻亘鬲 亘賴 讴丕乇鬲賵賳鈥屫堌жㄢ€屬囏� 賵 亘蹖鈥屫池辟举嗀з団€屬囏� 毓賵囟 卮丿賴....
February 19, 2025
At nineteen, young George Orwell joined the Imperial Police of the Indies. Six years later, he resigned to become a writer. Orwell left Paris to take his first steps as an author and drag his boots. Penniless, he settled in the slums and lodged in seedy hotels. At first, as best Orwell could, they sold his clothes at the Mont de Pi茅t茅 and gave a few English lessons that were insufficient to pay his rent. He then had to find work, and he called on an acquaintance, a Russian hotel waiter named Boris, who could perhaps get him hired, but the latter was also up to his neck in trouble. As a result, they became pals and tried to work in the restaurant business. After long days of endless wandering, it is in the dishwashing of a large hotel restaurant that Georges will finally sweat, scrub, wash, and toil for a pittance that barely allows him to eat his fill. This job will open his eyes to the sub- proletariat's conditions and the dirt and filth of Parisian luxury hotels. Nostalgic, the Englishman misses the mint sauce, and here he is off to London, where he finds the same misery with other unfortunate friends like Bozo, the artist, or Paddy, the beggar.
This book describes George Orwell's experience in Paris and London. He experienced poverty, hardship, hunger, one-eyed hotels, and asylums, and, above all, he made unforgettable encounters and made friends with picturesque characters, vagabonds, tramps, and other slackers he met on the streets of Paris or in the asylums of London. His travel diary, which he describes as banal in its last pages, pays homage to all those who live on the margins. It also reflects a profound transformation in his perspective. He concludes: "Never again will I consider all tramps as scoundrels or drunkards, never again will I expect a beggar to show me his gratitude when I have slipped him a coin, never again will I be surprised that the unemployed lack energy. Never again will I pay a single penny to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor sit down salivating in advance at a fine restaurant."
This book describes George Orwell's experience in Paris and London. He experienced poverty, hardship, hunger, one-eyed hotels, and asylums, and, above all, he made unforgettable encounters and made friends with picturesque characters, vagabonds, tramps, and other slackers he met on the streets of Paris or in the asylums of London. His travel diary, which he describes as banal in its last pages, pays homage to all those who live on the margins. It also reflects a profound transformation in his perspective. He concludes: "Never again will I consider all tramps as scoundrels or drunkards, never again will I expect a beggar to show me his gratitude when I have slipped him a coin, never again will I be surprised that the unemployed lack energy. Never again will I pay a single penny to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor sit down salivating in advance at a fine restaurant."
January 29, 2021
Quite a harrowing book,with its depiction of stark poverty,menial work and the constant struggle for the basic necessities of life .
I found it hard to read,but it was very moving as well. Orwell also did a similar job in another book,The Road to Wigan Pier. That too,was very bleak and compassionate.
Orwell knew about hardship.He had given up his job in the imperial police,and things were not too bright for him financially. He actually became a dishwasher for a while. He lived that life,he could talk about it with authenticity.
It's been some years since I read it,it stays in memory.But I'd find it difficult to read again,it's too raw and realistic.
I found it hard to read,but it was very moving as well. Orwell also did a similar job in another book,The Road to Wigan Pier. That too,was very bleak and compassionate.
Orwell knew about hardship.He had given up his job in the imperial police,and things were not too bright for him financially. He actually became a dishwasher for a while. He lived that life,he could talk about it with authenticity.
It's been some years since I read it,it stays in memory.But I'd find it difficult to read again,it's too raw and realistic.
April 2, 2025
Down and Out in Paris and London is a eulogy to poverty. Based on Orwell's experience, the book explores the theme from different viewpoints. Orwell resigned from the Imperial police to become a writer. It is this decision that led him to lead the life he describes in Down and Out in Paris and London. He lives the life of a destitute in Paris, working in and out as a dishwasher to earn his keep. In London, he lives the life of a vagrant. His lived-in experience in poverty enabled him to make a good account of poverty and its implications.
The main purpose of writing the book was to demolish the misconception of poverty and the poor. Society held the view that poverty was somehow a fault of the people. Either they were lazy or they lacked the ability to work themselves up. At no point did they consider that perhaps there were things that don't meet the eye. Orwell's book is an effort to enlighten what the eyes don't see. Orwell shows how even the educated people struggle to survive, laying their hands in all sorts of jobs just to make their ends. It is not the absence of will but the opportunity. Also, unforeseen circumstances like illness, accidents, theft, or sheer bad luck can reduce one to poverty. Poverty is not always the fault of the poor. Orwell then demonstrates how badly the poor are generally treated. The shabby clothes, the smell, the unwashed countenance, and the starved look are enough for the public to recoil from them in disgust. This works negatively in the poor's psyche as they withdraw more and more into themselves, demoralising them.
Poverty can, however, work contrarily to what is described above. George Orwell shows how poverty can work as inspiration and motivation. Rather than making poverty one's prison, he can turn his confinement into something that motivates and inspires him so he can break the prison door and step up to the world. Poverty is also a freedom, Orwell says; it helps one to act differently. From an artistic point of view, this freedom is valuable, as we can see from Orwell's life.
Having said that, I don't think the book is a memoir. It is more of what is now called an autobiografiction, partly autobiography and partly fiction. I can't help but think that the Paris and London living was his own choosing just to find the material for his writing. The first part of the book describes his life in Paris and the second, London. I enjoyed the first part more. It had more vibrant characters and a colourful story. The second part was monotonous. The story and the characters were dull and insipid. Down and Out in Paris and London is an important book in George Orwell's canon, although it may not be his best.
More of my reviews can be found at
The main purpose of writing the book was to demolish the misconception of poverty and the poor. Society held the view that poverty was somehow a fault of the people. Either they were lazy or they lacked the ability to work themselves up. At no point did they consider that perhaps there were things that don't meet the eye. Orwell's book is an effort to enlighten what the eyes don't see. Orwell shows how even the educated people struggle to survive, laying their hands in all sorts of jobs just to make their ends. It is not the absence of will but the opportunity. Also, unforeseen circumstances like illness, accidents, theft, or sheer bad luck can reduce one to poverty. Poverty is not always the fault of the poor. Orwell then demonstrates how badly the poor are generally treated. The shabby clothes, the smell, the unwashed countenance, and the starved look are enough for the public to recoil from them in disgust. This works negatively in the poor's psyche as they withdraw more and more into themselves, demoralising them.
Poverty can, however, work contrarily to what is described above. George Orwell shows how poverty can work as inspiration and motivation. Rather than making poverty one's prison, he can turn his confinement into something that motivates and inspires him so he can break the prison door and step up to the world. Poverty is also a freedom, Orwell says; it helps one to act differently. From an artistic point of view, this freedom is valuable, as we can see from Orwell's life.
Having said that, I don't think the book is a memoir. It is more of what is now called an autobiografiction, partly autobiography and partly fiction. I can't help but think that the Paris and London living was his own choosing just to find the material for his writing. The first part of the book describes his life in Paris and the second, London. I enjoyed the first part more. It had more vibrant characters and a colourful story. The second part was monotonous. The story and the characters were dull and insipid. Down and Out in Paris and London is an important book in George Orwell's canon, although it may not be his best.
More of my reviews can be found at
February 26, 2025
After reading this, one thing is very clear: I never want to be down and out in Paris or London.
No one writes disgust better than Orwell! He's the king of filth, the master of hopelessness, the father of despair鈥攁n absolute genius when it comes to misery. He's an artist who paints not with oils and fine paints, but with beautiful words and revolting imagery. From the streets and slums of Paris to the filthy boarding houses of London, we experience it all firsthand: fleas, roaches, starvation, debauchery, more fleas, more starvation, poverty, and a general bleakness that gnaws at the entire novel.
I can't say it's my favorite Orwell book; that honor goes to 1984. But it was a good read and well worth my time.
No one writes disgust better than Orwell! He's the king of filth, the master of hopelessness, the father of despair鈥攁n absolute genius when it comes to misery. He's an artist who paints not with oils and fine paints, but with beautiful words and revolting imagery. From the streets and slums of Paris to the filthy boarding houses of London, we experience it all firsthand: fleas, roaches, starvation, debauchery, more fleas, more starvation, poverty, and a general bleakness that gnaws at the entire novel.
I can't say it's my favorite Orwell book; that honor goes to 1984. But it was a good read and well worth my time.
September 29, 2023
.. 乇賵丕賷丞 乇丕卅毓丞 馗賱賲鬲賴丕 卮賴乇丞 丕亘賳丞 兀亘賷賴丕 丕賱亘丕乇丞 "1984" 賮賴賷 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丕賱兀卮賴乇 賱噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 亘賱丕 賲賳丕夭毓.
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芦丕賱亘丐爻 賴賵 賲丕 兀卮乇毓 兀賰鬲亘 毓賳賴貙 丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱匕賷 丕鬲氐賱鬲 亘賴 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賲賳 丨賷丕鬲賷貙 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丨賷 丕賱賮賯賷乇... 賰丕賳 賱賱賵賴賱丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丿乇爻丕 賲賵囟賵毓賷丕 賲丕丿丞 丿乇丕爻賷丞 賱賱亘丐爻 賵氐丕乇 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 禺賱賮賷丞 鬲噩丕乇亘賷 丕賱禺丕氐丞貙 賵賱賴匕丕 丕賱爻亘亘 兀丨丕賵賱 兀賳 兀賯丿賲 賮賰乇丞 賲丕貙 毓賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賴賳丕賰禄..
賯亘賱 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷賯賵賱 噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 芦 兀卮毓乇 亘兀賳賳賷 賱賲 兀毓乇賮 賲賳 丕賱亘丐爻 廿賱丕 丨丕賮鬲賴 .!禄. .
鈥� 芦賴賳丕 丕賱毓丕賱賲 丕賱匕賷 賷賳鬲馗乇賰 廿賳 賰賳鬲 賲賮賱爻丕 賮賷 兀丨丿 丕賱兀賷丕賲..禄
鈥� 鬲鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 丨賷丕丞 丕賱亘丕卅爻賷賳 亘氐丿賯 賵鬲丿賯賷賯 賲賳 毓丕卮 賮賷 鬲賱賰 丕賱丿乇賵亘 丕賱賲馗賱賲丞 賲賳 亘丕乇賷爻 賵賱賳丿賳 ..
鈥⒇ㄘ关� 賯乇丕亍丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 爻賵賮 鬲毓賷丿 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賯亘賱 丕賱丿禺賵賱 廿賱賶 賮賳丿賯 乇丕賯 賱鬲賳丕賵賱 丕賱胤毓丕賲貙 賵賯亘賱 兀賳 鬲賳鬲馗乇 賰賱賲丞 卮賰乇 賲賳 賲鬲爻賵賱 賯丿 兀毓胤賷鬲賴 亘賳爻丕..
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_ 賴賳丕 丕賱賵噩賴 丕賱賲卮賵賴 賱卮賵丕乇毓 亘丕乇賷爻 賵賱賳丿賳 賮毓賱賶 丕賱噩丕賳亘 丕賱丌禺乇 賲賳 賲胤丕毓賲賴丕 賵賮賳丕丿賯賴丕 丕賱賮丕禺乇丞 賱丕 賷賮氐賱賰 廿賱丕 亘丕亘 賲夭丿賵噩 毓賳 丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱丨賯賷賯賷 賱丨賷丕丞 睾丕爻賱賷 丕賱氐丨賵賳 丕賱賷丕卅爻丞 賱丕 賴丿賮 賲賳 賴匕賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賵賱丕 賲爻鬲賯亘賱 賱賴丕 貙 賮賱丕 賷賲賱賰 睾丕爻賱 丕賱氐丨賵賳 鬲乇賮 丕賱鬲賮賰賷乇 賱賲丕 賴賵 兀亘毓丿 賲賳 賵噩亘丞 胤毓丕賲賴 賵廿賷噩丕乇 賳購夭賱賴..
芦丕賱亘丐爻 賴賵 賲丕 兀卮乇毓 兀賰鬲亘 毓賳賴貙 丕賱亘丐爻 丕賱匕賷 丕鬲氐賱鬲 亘賴 賱賱賲乇丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 賲賳 丨賷丕鬲賷貙 賮賷 賴匕丕 丕賱丨賷 丕賱賮賯賷乇... 賰丕賳 賱賱賵賴賱丞 丕賱兀賵賱賶 丿乇爻丕 賲賵囟賵毓賷丕 賲丕丿丞 丿乇丕爻賷丞 賱賱亘丐爻 賵氐丕乇 賮賷賲丕 亘毓丿 禺賱賮賷丞 鬲噩丕乇亘賷 丕賱禺丕氐丞貙 賵賱賴匕丕 丕賱爻亘亘 兀丨丕賵賱 兀賳 兀賯丿賲 賮賰乇丞 賲丕貙 毓賲丕 賰丕賳鬲 毓賱賷賴 丕賱丨賷丕丞 賴賳丕賰禄..
賯亘賱 賳賴丕賷丞 丕賱乇賵丕賷丞 賷賯賵賱 噩賵乇噩 兀賵乇賵賷賱 芦 兀卮毓乇 亘兀賳賳賷 賱賲 兀毓乇賮 賲賳 丕賱亘丐爻 廿賱丕 丨丕賮鬲賴 .!禄. .
July 1, 2010
What I learned from this book (in no particular order):
1. There is hardly such a thing as a French waiter in Paris: the waiters are all Italian and German. They just pretend to be French to be able to affect that certain hauteur and charge you exorbitant prices for that mediocre Boeuf Bourgignon.
2. Some of them are spies. Waitering is a common profession for a spy to adopt. It is also a popular profession among AWOL ex-soldiers and wannabe snobs.
3. Real scullery maids do 鈥渃urse like a scullion鈥� (hey, that鈥檚 a Hamlet quotation!). No doubt Shakespeare had watched a real-life Elizabethan scullion at work.
4. Men cooks are preferred to women, not because of any superiority in technique, but for their punctuality in delivering orders. The only woman cook featured in the book has nervous breakdowns at exactly 12 pm, 6 pm and 9 pm every day, although it must be noted that they are caused by circumstances that are beyond her control.
5. A French cook will spit in the soup --- that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment.
6. A steak will not be handled with a fork: the cook will just pick it up in his fingers and slap it down, run his thumb round the dish and lick it to taste the gravy. He will further press it lovingly with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning. When he is satisfied, he takes a cloth and wipes his fingerprints from the dish, and hands it to the waiter.
7. And the waiter, of course, will dip HIS fingers into the gravy --- his nasty, greasy fingers which he is forever running through his briliantined hair.
8. The scullery is the filthiest part of all: it is nothing unusual for a waiter to wash his face in the water in which clean crockery is rinsing.
9. The Plongeur is the lowest kitchen worker in a French restaurant who deals with the dirtiest, sweatiest work available. However, he is allowed two liters of wine a day, because otherwise, he will steal three. Everyone seems to work faster when partially drunk anyway.
10. A bum鈥檚 life, whether in Paris or London, is a real BUMMER.
BUT SERIOUSLY,
George Orwell went slumming in Paris and London, and the result is probably one of the best-written accounts of the bumming life ever penned. However, don鈥檛 read it if you are sensitive to pungent, unsparing descriptions of filthy kitchens, foul body odors, bug-infested beds and other unsavory aspects of a life gone to the dogs.
1. There is hardly such a thing as a French waiter in Paris: the waiters are all Italian and German. They just pretend to be French to be able to affect that certain hauteur and charge you exorbitant prices for that mediocre Boeuf Bourgignon.
2. Some of them are spies. Waitering is a common profession for a spy to adopt. It is also a popular profession among AWOL ex-soldiers and wannabe snobs.
3. Real scullery maids do 鈥渃urse like a scullion鈥� (hey, that鈥檚 a Hamlet quotation!). No doubt Shakespeare had watched a real-life Elizabethan scullion at work.
4. Men cooks are preferred to women, not because of any superiority in technique, but for their punctuality in delivering orders. The only woman cook featured in the book has nervous breakdowns at exactly 12 pm, 6 pm and 9 pm every day, although it must be noted that they are caused by circumstances that are beyond her control.
5. A French cook will spit in the soup --- that is, if he is not going to drink it himself. He is an artist, but his art is not cleanliness. To a certain extent he is even dirty because he is an artist, for food, to look smart, needs dirty treatment.
6. A steak will not be handled with a fork: the cook will just pick it up in his fingers and slap it down, run his thumb round the dish and lick it to taste the gravy. He will further press it lovingly with his fat, pink fingers, every one of which he has licked a hundred times that morning. When he is satisfied, he takes a cloth and wipes his fingerprints from the dish, and hands it to the waiter.
7. And the waiter, of course, will dip HIS fingers into the gravy --- his nasty, greasy fingers which he is forever running through his briliantined hair.
8. The scullery is the filthiest part of all: it is nothing unusual for a waiter to wash his face in the water in which clean crockery is rinsing.
9. The Plongeur is the lowest kitchen worker in a French restaurant who deals with the dirtiest, sweatiest work available. However, he is allowed two liters of wine a day, because otherwise, he will steal three. Everyone seems to work faster when partially drunk anyway.
10. A bum鈥檚 life, whether in Paris or London, is a real BUMMER.
BUT SERIOUSLY,
George Orwell went slumming in Paris and London, and the result is probably one of the best-written accounts of the bumming life ever penned. However, don鈥檛 read it if you are sensitive to pungent, unsparing descriptions of filthy kitchens, foul body odors, bug-infested beds and other unsavory aspects of a life gone to the dogs.
February 3, 2018
丕夭 丕賵賱 鬲丕 丌禺乇 賰鬲丕亘貙 丕賳诏丕乇 丿乇 丨丕賱 倬賷丕丿賴鈥屫辟堎� 亘賵丿賴鈥屫з�.. 賷賰 倬賷丕丿賴鈥屫辟堎� 賲丿丕賵賲 丿乇 賰賵趩賴鈥屬矩斥€屬冑堏嗁団€屬囏з� 倬丕乇賷爻 賵 賱賳丿賳.. 賳賴 丕夭 丌賳 倬賷丕丿賴鈥屫辟堎娾€屬囏з娰� 賰賴 亘丕毓孬 卮賵賳丿 诏匕乇鬲 亘賴 亘禺卮賴丕賷 禺賵亘 賵 乇賲丕賳鬲賷賰 賵 賱匕鬲鈥屫ㄘ� 卮賴乇 亘賷賮鬲丿... 亘乇毓賰爻.... 丕賳诏丕乇 乇賵夭賴丕 丿乇 賲丨賱賴鈥屬囏з� 賰孬賷賮 賵 賲賲賱賵 丕夭 賮賯乇 賵 賮賱丕賰鬲 賯丿賲 亘乇丿丕卮鬲賴鈥屫з�... 賵 卮亘賴丕 乇丕 賴賲乇丕賴 賵 賴賲诏丕賲 噩賵乇噩 丕賵乇賵賱貙 丿乇 睾賷乇賯丕亘賱 鬲丨賲賱鈥屫辟娰� 賲爻丕賮乇禺丕賳賴鈥屬囏� 賵 丕賯丕賲鬲诏丕賴賴丕賷 倬丕乇賷爻 賵 賱賳丿賳貙 亘賴 氐亘丨 乇爻丕賳丿賴鈥屫з�..
賴賲賴 丕賷賳 賰鬲丕亘貙 乇賵丕賷鬲 賮賯乇 丕爻鬲.. 賳賰鬲賴 丿賱賳卮賷賳 賵 亘乇噩爻鬲賴 賰鬲丕亘 丕賷賳 丕爻鬲 賰賴 丕賵賱丕 賳賴 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 賷賰 賮乇丿 诏賲賳丕賲貙 亘賱賰賴 丕夭 噩丕賳亘 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴 1984 賵 賲夭乇毓賴 丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲貙 乇賵丕賷鬲 賲賷鈥屫促堌�.. 賵 亘賷丕賳 噩夭卅賷丕鬲 賯囟丕賷丕 賵 鬲賵氐賷賮賴丕賷 丕賵乇賵賱貙 鬲賵 乇丕 賴乇 趩賴 亘賷卮鬲乇 賵 亘賷卮鬲乇 丿乇 氐丨賳賴鈥屬囏� 賵 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 睾乇賯 賲賷鈥屬冑嗀�.. 丿乇 賰賳丕乇 丕賷賳 賲囟賲賵賳貙 賱丨賳 丕賵乇賵賱 賰賴 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲 夭賷丕丿賷 丕夭 亘禺卮賴丕貙 丌賲賷禺鬲賴 亘賴 胤賳夭 丕爻鬲貙 丕賷賳 賴賳乇 乇丕 丿丕乇丿 賰賴 丿乇 睾賲鈥屫з嗂娯藏辟娰� 鬲賵氐賷賮丕鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴賲 鬲賵 乇丕 亘賴 禺賳丿賴 亘賷賳丿丕夭丿... 賷賰賷 丕夭 亘賴鬲乇賷賳 亘禺卮賴丕賷 賰鬲丕亘 賴賲貙 丌賳噩丕爻鬲 賰賴 丕賵乇賵賱 丕夭 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕賷 賮賯賷乇 賵 禺賷丕亘丕賳鈥屫堌жㄙ� 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻賲 賲賷鈥屫ㄘ必� 賰賴 亘乇禺賱丕賮 鬲氐賵乇 毓賲賵賲 賰賴 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘賷鈥屫ж必藏� 賵 鬲賳亘賱 賵 亘賷鈥屬呚地辟� 賲賷鈥屫з嗁嗀� 丕夭 賮賰乇 賵 賴賳乇 賵 賵賷跇诏賷賴丕賷 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 噩丕賱亘賷 亘乇禺賵乇丿丕乇賳丿...
丿乇 囟賲賳貙 鬲乇噩賲賴 (亘賴賲賳 丿丕乇丕賱卮賮丕賷賷) 賴賲 毓丕賱賷 亘賵丿.
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亘毓丿 丕夭 睾匕丕貙 亘賵乇賷爻 丌賳賯丿乇 禺賵卮亘賷賳 亘賵丿 賰賴 鬲丕丨丕賱丕 丕賷賳胤賵乇 賳丿賷丿賴 亘賵丿賲卮. 诏賮鬲: 趩賷 亘賴鬲 诏賮鬲賲責 鬲賯丿賷乇 噩賳诏! 丕賲乇賵夭 氐亘丨 倬賳噩 爻賵 丿丕卮鬲賷賲. 丨丕賱丕 賵囟毓賲丕賳 乇丕 亘亘賷賳! 賴賲賷卮賴 诏賮鬲賴鈥屫з� 亘丿爻鬲 丌賵乇丿賳 倬賵賱 丕夭 賴乇 賰丕乇 丿賷诏乇賷 丌爻丕賳鬲乇 丕爻鬲. 賴賲賷賳 丕賱丕賳 賷丕丿 丿賵爻鬲賷 丕賮鬲丕丿賲 賰賴 丿乇 禺賷丕亘丕賳 賮賵賳丿丕乇賷 丕爻鬲. 亘丕賷丿 亘乇賵賷賲 賵 亘亘賷賳賷賲卮. 賲乇丿賰 丿夭丿 趩賴丕乇賴夭丕乇 賮乇丕賳賰 爻乇 賲賳 賰賱丕賴 诏匕丕卮鬲賴. 賵賯鬲賷 賴卮賷丕乇 丕爻鬲貙 亘夭乇诏鬲乇賷賳 丿夭丿 乇賵賷 夭賲賷賳 丕爻鬲. 丕賲丕 賳賰鬲賴 毓噩賷亘卮 丕賷賳 丕爻鬲 賰賴 賵賯鬲賷 賲爻鬲 賲賷鈥屬冑嗀� 賰丕賲賱丕 氐丕丿賯 丕爻鬲. 賮賰乇賰賳賲 爻丕毓鬲 卮卮 亘毓丿丕夭馗賴乇 丿賷诏乇 賲爻鬲 卮丿賴 亘丕卮丿. 丕丨鬲賲丕賱 夭賷丕丿賷 丿丕乇丿 賰賴 毓賱賷鈥屫з勜池ж� 氐丿賮乇丕賳賰 亘丿賴丿. 卮丕賷丿 賴賲 丿賵賷爻鬲 賮乇丕賳賰 亘丿賴丿. 亘夭賳 亘乇賷賲!
亘賴 禺賷丕亘丕賳 賮賵賳丿丕乇賷 乇賮鬲賷賲 賵 胤乇賮 乇丕 倬賷丿丕 賰乇丿賷賲. 賲爻鬲 亘賵丿貙 賵賱賷 倬賵賱賷 亘賴 賲丕 賳丿丕丿. 賴賲賷賳賰賴 亘賵乇賷爻 賵 丕賵 賴賲丿賷诏乇 乇丕 丿賷丿賳丿 賴賲丕賳噩丕 丿乇 禺賷丕亘丕賳 丿毓賵丕賷 賱賮馗賷 爻禺鬲賷 亘賷賳卮丕賳 丿乇诏乇賮鬲. 丌賳 賲乇丿 丕丿毓丕 賲賷賰乇丿 賰賴 賷賰 倬賳賷 賴賲 亘賴 亘賵乇賷爻 亘丿賴賰丕乇 賳賷爻鬲. 亘賱賰賴 丕鬲賮丕賯丕 丕賷賳 亘賵乇賷爻 丕爻鬲 賰賴 趩賴丕乇賴夭丕乇 賮乇丕賳賰 亘賴 丕賵 亘丿賴賰丕乇 丕爻鬲. 賴乇丿賵賷 丌賳賴丕 賲丿丕賲 乇賵 亘賴 賲賳 賲賷賰乇丿賳丿 賵 賳馗乇賲 乇丕 賲賷倬乇爻賷丿賳丿. 賲賳 丌禺乇卮 賳賮賴賲賷丿賲 丨賯賷賯鬲 賲丕噩乇丕 趩賴 亘賵丿賴. 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賷賳 賰賴 丿賵爻丕毓鬲 鬲賲丕賲貙 賴賲丿賷诏乇 乇丕 丿夭丿 禺胤丕亘 賰乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 丕夭 賲賳 噩丿丕卮丿賳丿 賵 丿賵鬲丕賷賷 乇賮鬲賳丿 賲賷诏爻丕乇賷...
賴賲賴 丕賷賳 賰鬲丕亘貙 乇賵丕賷鬲 賮賯乇 丕爻鬲.. 賳賰鬲賴 丿賱賳卮賷賳 賵 亘乇噩爻鬲賴 賰鬲丕亘 丕賷賳 丕爻鬲 賰賴 丕賵賱丕 賳賴 丕夭 夭亘丕賳 賷賰 賮乇丿 诏賲賳丕賲貙 亘賱賰賴 丕夭 噩丕賳亘 賳賵賷爻賳丿賴 1984 賵 賲夭乇毓賴 丨賷賵丕賳丕鬲貙 乇賵丕賷鬲 賲賷鈥屫促堌�.. 賵 亘賷丕賳 噩夭卅賷丕鬲 賯囟丕賷丕 賵 鬲賵氐賷賮賴丕賷 丕賵乇賵賱貙 鬲賵 乇丕 賴乇 趩賴 亘賷卮鬲乇 賵 亘賷卮鬲乇 丿乇 氐丨賳賴鈥屬囏� 賵 丕鬲賮丕賯丕鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 睾乇賯 賲賷鈥屬冑嗀�.. 丿乇 賰賳丕乇 丕賷賳 賲囟賲賵賳貙 賱丨賳 丕賵乇賵賱 賰賴 丿乇 賯爻賲鬲 夭賷丕丿賷 丕夭 亘禺卮賴丕貙 丌賲賷禺鬲賴 亘賴 胤賳夭 丕爻鬲貙 丕賷賳 賴賳乇 乇丕 丿丕乇丿 賰賴 丿乇 睾賲鈥屫з嗂娯藏辟娰� 鬲賵氐賷賮丕鬲 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 賴賲 鬲賵 乇丕 亘賴 禺賳丿賴 亘賷賳丿丕夭丿... 賷賰賷 丕夭 亘賴鬲乇賷賳 亘禺卮賴丕賷 賰鬲丕亘 賴賲貙 丌賳噩丕爻鬲 賰賴 丕賵乇賵賱 丕夭 卮禺氐賷鬲賴丕賷 賮賯賷乇 賵 禺賷丕亘丕賳鈥屫堌жㄙ� 丿乇 丿丕爻鬲丕賳 丕爻賲 賲賷鈥屫ㄘ必� 賰賴 亘乇禺賱丕賮 鬲氐賵乇 毓賲賵賲 賰賴 丌賳賴丕 乇丕 亘賷鈥屫ж必藏� 賵 鬲賳亘賱 賵 亘賷鈥屬呚地辟� 賲賷鈥屫з嗁嗀� 丕夭 賮賰乇 賵 賴賳乇 賵 賵賷跇诏賷賴丕賷 卮禺氐賷鬲賷 噩丕賱亘賷 亘乇禺賵乇丿丕乇賳丿...
丿乇 囟賲賳貙 鬲乇噩賲賴 (亘賴賲賳 丿丕乇丕賱卮賮丕賷賷) 賴賲 毓丕賱賷 亘賵丿.
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亘毓丿 丕夭 睾匕丕貙 亘賵乇賷爻 丌賳賯丿乇 禺賵卮亘賷賳 亘賵丿 賰賴 鬲丕丨丕賱丕 丕賷賳胤賵乇 賳丿賷丿賴 亘賵丿賲卮. 诏賮鬲: 趩賷 亘賴鬲 诏賮鬲賲責 鬲賯丿賷乇 噩賳诏! 丕賲乇賵夭 氐亘丨 倬賳噩 爻賵 丿丕卮鬲賷賲. 丨丕賱丕 賵囟毓賲丕賳 乇丕 亘亘賷賳! 賴賲賷卮賴 诏賮鬲賴鈥屫з� 亘丿爻鬲 丌賵乇丿賳 倬賵賱 丕夭 賴乇 賰丕乇 丿賷诏乇賷 丌爻丕賳鬲乇 丕爻鬲. 賴賲賷賳 丕賱丕賳 賷丕丿 丿賵爻鬲賷 丕賮鬲丕丿賲 賰賴 丿乇 禺賷丕亘丕賳 賮賵賳丿丕乇賷 丕爻鬲. 亘丕賷丿 亘乇賵賷賲 賵 亘亘賷賳賷賲卮. 賲乇丿賰 丿夭丿 趩賴丕乇賴夭丕乇 賮乇丕賳賰 爻乇 賲賳 賰賱丕賴 诏匕丕卮鬲賴. 賵賯鬲賷 賴卮賷丕乇 丕爻鬲貙 亘夭乇诏鬲乇賷賳 丿夭丿 乇賵賷 夭賲賷賳 丕爻鬲. 丕賲丕 賳賰鬲賴 毓噩賷亘卮 丕賷賳 丕爻鬲 賰賴 賵賯鬲賷 賲爻鬲 賲賷鈥屬冑嗀� 賰丕賲賱丕 氐丕丿賯 丕爻鬲. 賮賰乇賰賳賲 爻丕毓鬲 卮卮 亘毓丿丕夭馗賴乇 丿賷诏乇 賲爻鬲 卮丿賴 亘丕卮丿. 丕丨鬲賲丕賱 夭賷丕丿賷 丿丕乇丿 賰賴 毓賱賷鈥屫з勜池ж� 氐丿賮乇丕賳賰 亘丿賴丿. 卮丕賷丿 賴賲 丿賵賷爻鬲 賮乇丕賳賰 亘丿賴丿. 亘夭賳 亘乇賷賲!
亘賴 禺賷丕亘丕賳 賮賵賳丿丕乇賷 乇賮鬲賷賲 賵 胤乇賮 乇丕 倬賷丿丕 賰乇丿賷賲. 賲爻鬲 亘賵丿貙 賵賱賷 倬賵賱賷 亘賴 賲丕 賳丿丕丿. 賴賲賷賳賰賴 亘賵乇賷爻 賵 丕賵 賴賲丿賷诏乇 乇丕 丿賷丿賳丿 賴賲丕賳噩丕 丿乇 禺賷丕亘丕賳 丿毓賵丕賷 賱賮馗賷 爻禺鬲賷 亘賷賳卮丕賳 丿乇诏乇賮鬲. 丌賳 賲乇丿 丕丿毓丕 賲賷賰乇丿 賰賴 賷賰 倬賳賷 賴賲 亘賴 亘賵乇賷爻 亘丿賴賰丕乇 賳賷爻鬲. 亘賱賰賴 丕鬲賮丕賯丕 丕賷賳 亘賵乇賷爻 丕爻鬲 賰賴 趩賴丕乇賴夭丕乇 賮乇丕賳賰 亘賴 丕賵 亘丿賴賰丕乇 丕爻鬲. 賴乇丿賵賷 丌賳賴丕 賲丿丕賲 乇賵 亘賴 賲賳 賲賷賰乇丿賳丿 賵 賳馗乇賲 乇丕 賲賷倬乇爻賷丿賳丿. 賲賳 丌禺乇卮 賳賮賴賲賷丿賲 丨賯賷賯鬲 賲丕噩乇丕 趩賴 亘賵丿賴. 亘毓丿 丕夭 丕賷賳 賰賴 丿賵爻丕毓鬲 鬲賲丕賲貙 賴賲丿賷诏乇 乇丕 丿夭丿 禺胤丕亘 賰乇丿賴 亘賵丿賳丿貙 丕夭 賲賳 噩丿丕卮丿賳丿 賵 丿賵鬲丕賷賷 乇賮鬲賳丿 賲賷诏爻丕乇賷...
March 20, 2025
袦薪芯谐芯 褏芯褉邪 胁褗芯斜褖械 薪械 蟹薪邪褟褌, 泻邪泻胁芯 械 写邪 褋懈 懈褋褌懈薪褋泻懈 斜械写械薪. 袛褉褍谐懈 褋邪 褍褋锌械谢懈 写邪 蟹邪斜褉邪胁褟褌, 邪 薪邪 褌褉械褌懈 懈屑 锌褉械写褋褌芯懈 写邪 褉邪蟹斜械褉邪褌.
袦懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪, 芯褋泻芯褌褟胁邪薪械褌芯 懈 斜械蟹褋懈谢懈械褌芯 胁褗褉胁褟褌 写褉褍卸薪芯 褉褗泻邪 蟹邪 褉褗泻邪, 斜械蟹 蟹薪邪褔械薪懈械 写邪谢懈 褌芯胁邪 褋褌邪胁邪 懈蟹 袥芯薪写芯薪, 袩邪褉懈卸, 袣邪谢泻褍褌邪 懈谢懈 袩械褉薪懈泻.
袧邪 写褗薪芯褌芯 褋械 卸懈胁械械 褌械谐邪胁芯 懈 褌褉褍写薪芯, 褔械褋褌芯 斜械蟹锌邪屑械褌薪芯, 薪芯 懈屑邪 懈 薪褞邪薪褋懈, 胁 褌芯胁邪 泻邪泻 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯褌芯 械 褍褉械写懈谢芯 锌褉械卸懈胁褟胁邪薪械褌芯 薪邪 锌褉芯锌邪写薪邪谢懈褌械 锌芯 械写薪邪 懈谢懈 写褉褍谐邪 锌褉懈褔懈薪邪 褌邪屑.
袙 袩邪褉懈卸, 锌谢芯薪卸芯褉懈褌械 懈 泻邪褌芯 褑褟谢芯 芯斜褋谢褍卸胁邪褖懈褟 锌械褉褋芯薪邪谢 褉芯斜褍胁邪褌 蟹邪 屑懈蟹械褉薪懈 薪邪写薪懈褑懈 斜械蟹斜褉芯泄薪懈 褔邪褋芯胁械, 写芯泻邪褌芯 胁 袥芯薪写芯薪 斜械写薪懈褌械 褋邪 锌褉懈薪褍写械薪懈 写邪 褋泻懈褌邪褌 薪械锌褉械褋褌邪薪薪芯, 蟹邪 写邪 芯褑械谢械褟褌.
袟邪 褋褌芯褌懈薪邪 谐芯写懈薪懈 锌芯褔褌懈 薪懈褖芯 薪械 褋械 械 锌褉芯屑械薪懈谢芯. 袩褉械写懈 写胁邪泄褋械褌懈薪邪 谐芯写懈薪懈 褉邪斜芯褌械褏 薪邪 泻褉褍懈蟹械薪 泻芯褉邪斜 5* 懈 斜褟褏 锌芯褌褉械褋械薪 芯褌 薪懈褋泻芯褌芯 薪懈胁芯 薪邪 褏懈谐懈械薪邪 胁 泻褍褏薪懈褌械 薪邪 褉械褋褌芯褉邪薪褌懈褌械 屑褍, 泻邪泻褌芯 懈 芯褌 屑褗褉谢褟胁懈褌械 谐芯褌胁邪褔懈 懈 泻褍褏薪械薪褋泻懈 锌械褉褋芯薪邪谢.
袛械斜褞褌薪邪褌邪 懈 邪胁褌芯斜懈芯谐褉邪褎懈褔薪邪 泻薪懈谐邪 薪邪 袨褉褍械谢 械 写芯斜褉邪, 屑邪泻邪褉 懈 写邪 屑懈 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 薪械写芯胁褗褉褕械薪邪. 袙懈卸写邪 褋械 懈 褌邪谢邪薪褌褗褌 屑褍, 泻芯泄褌芯 褖械 懈蟹斜褍懈 锌褉械蟹 谐芯写懈薪懈褌械 懈 褖械 薪懈 写邪写械 屑薪芯谐芯 锌芯胁芯写懈 蟹邪 褉邪蟹屑懈褋褗谢!
笑懈褌邪褌懈:
"袠屑邪 褋邪屑芯 械写懈薪 薪邪褔懈薪 写邪 懈蟹泻邪褉邪褕 锌邪褉懈 褋 锌懈褋邪薪械, 懈 褌芯泄 械 写邪 褋械 芯卸械薪懈褕 蟹邪 写褗褖械褉褟褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹写邪褌械谢."
"袧邪 锌褉邪泻褌懈泻邪 薪懈泻芯泄 薪械 褋械 懈薪褌械褉械褋褍胁邪 锌芯谢械蟹械薪 谢懈 械 械写懈薪 褌褉褍写 懈谢懈 械 斜械蟹锌芯谢械蟹械薪, 谐褉邪写懈胁械薪 谢懈 械, 懈谢懈 锌邪褉邪蟹懈褌械薪; 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯褌芯 懈蟹懈褋泻胁邪薪械 械 写邪 薪芯褋懈 锌械褔邪谢斜邪."
袦懈蟹械褉懈褟褌邪, 芯褋泻芯褌褟胁邪薪械褌芯 懈 斜械蟹褋懈谢懈械褌芯 胁褗褉胁褟褌 写褉褍卸薪芯 褉褗泻邪 蟹邪 褉褗泻邪, 斜械蟹 蟹薪邪褔械薪懈械 写邪谢懈 褌芯胁邪 褋褌邪胁邪 懈蟹 袥芯薪写芯薪, 袩邪褉懈卸, 袣邪谢泻褍褌邪 懈谢懈 袩械褉薪懈泻.
袧邪 写褗薪芯褌芯 褋械 卸懈胁械械 褌械谐邪胁芯 懈 褌褉褍写薪芯, 褔械褋褌芯 斜械蟹锌邪屑械褌薪芯, 薪芯 懈屑邪 懈 薪褞邪薪褋懈, 胁 褌芯胁邪 泻邪泻 芯斜褖械褋褌胁芯褌芯 械 褍褉械写懈谢芯 锌褉械卸懈胁褟胁邪薪械褌芯 薪邪 锌褉芯锌邪写薪邪谢懈褌械 锌芯 械写薪邪 懈谢懈 写褉褍谐邪 锌褉懈褔懈薪邪 褌邪屑.
袙 袩邪褉懈卸, 锌谢芯薪卸芯褉懈褌械 懈 泻邪褌芯 褑褟谢芯 芯斜褋谢褍卸胁邪褖懈褟 锌械褉褋芯薪邪谢 褉芯斜褍胁邪褌 蟹邪 屑懈蟹械褉薪懈 薪邪写薪懈褑懈 斜械蟹斜褉芯泄薪懈 褔邪褋芯胁械, 写芯泻邪褌芯 胁 袥芯薪写芯薪 斜械写薪懈褌械 褋邪 锌褉懈薪褍写械薪懈 写邪 褋泻懈褌邪褌 薪械锌褉械褋褌邪薪薪芯, 蟹邪 写邪 芯褑械谢械褟褌.
袟邪 褋褌芯褌懈薪邪 谐芯写懈薪懈 锌芯褔褌懈 薪懈褖芯 薪械 褋械 械 锌褉芯屑械薪懈谢芯. 袩褉械写懈 写胁邪泄褋械褌懈薪邪 谐芯写懈薪懈 褉邪斜芯褌械褏 薪邪 泻褉褍懈蟹械薪 泻芯褉邪斜 5* 懈 斜褟褏 锌芯褌褉械褋械薪 芯褌 薪懈褋泻芯褌芯 薪懈胁芯 薪邪 褏懈谐懈械薪邪 胁 泻褍褏薪懈褌械 薪邪 褉械褋褌芯褉邪薪褌懈褌械 屑褍, 泻邪泻褌芯 懈 芯褌 屑褗褉谢褟胁懈褌械 谐芯褌胁邪褔懈 懈 泻褍褏薪械薪褋泻懈 锌械褉褋芯薪邪谢.
袛械斜褞褌薪邪褌邪 懈 邪胁褌芯斜懈芯谐褉邪褎懈褔薪邪 泻薪懈谐邪 薪邪 袨褉褍械谢 械 写芯斜褉邪, 屑邪泻邪褉 懈 写邪 屑懈 懈蟹谐谢械卸写邪 薪械写芯胁褗褉褕械薪邪. 袙懈卸写邪 褋械 懈 褌邪谢邪薪褌褗褌 屑褍, 泻芯泄褌芯 褖械 懈蟹斜褍懈 锌褉械蟹 谐芯写懈薪懈褌械 懈 褖械 薪懈 写邪写械 屑薪芯谐芯 锌芯胁芯写懈 蟹邪 褉邪蟹屑懈褋褗谢!
笑懈褌邪褌懈:
"袠屑邪 褋邪屑芯 械写懈薪 薪邪褔懈薪 写邪 懈蟹泻邪褉邪褕 锌邪褉懈 褋 锌懈褋邪薪械, 懈 褌芯泄 械 写邪 褋械 芯卸械薪懈褕 蟹邪 写褗褖械褉褟褌邪 薪邪 懈蟹写邪褌械谢."
"袧邪 锌褉邪泻褌懈泻邪 薪懈泻芯泄 薪械 褋械 懈薪褌械褉械褋褍胁邪 锌芯谢械蟹械薪 谢懈 械 械写懈薪 褌褉褍写 懈谢懈 械 斜械蟹锌芯谢械蟹械薪, 谐褉邪写懈胁械薪 谢懈 械, 懈谢懈 锌邪褉邪蟹懈褌械薪; 械写懈薪褋褌胁械薪芯褌芯 懈蟹懈褋泻胁邪薪械 械 写邪 薪芯褋懈 锌械褔邪谢斜邪."
April 26, 2017
I've loved everything I've ever read by Orwell, including this book which is very autobiographical "fiction", written in the first person. The temporal setting of the "novel" is sometime in the 1920s I think. This is actually not a bad book to sample Orwell with, of course nowhere near as famous as Animal Farm or 1984, but it reads much like a memoir (a very interesting one) and hence can be experienced as a sample of Orwell's writing style and views on society, without those things being masked by the futurist/fantasy plots of the more famous books.
March 14, 2018
爻賲毓鬲 丕賱賰鬲丕亘 丿賴 賰賭 audiobook 賵賰丕賳 賲賳 兀噩賲賱 丕賱鬲噩丕乇亘 丕賱賱賷 賲乇賷鬲 亘賷賴丕.
March 31, 2021
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I was inspired to read this book after picking up and enjoying A MOVEABLE FEAST by Ernest Hemingway, which was a beautifully written memoir of living in Paris as a broke writer in the 1920s. I didn't even think I liked Hemingway as an author until I read that book and was totally blown away by the vivid descriptions of the "lost generation" working on many of their magna opera that would make them famous-- in the case of F. Scott Fitzgerald, posthumously so. DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON is Orwell's memoir of being a broke writer in the 1930s and it is... well, vivid, yes, but not in the fun way. More like in the visceral doom-scrolling way that so many of us are accustomed to in Our Year 2021.
There are two parts to this book. It opens with Paris, which in some ways does glamorize poverty, I feel. Or maybe that's just because Paris is more livable to those in dire straits. He paints comical portraits of his landlords and fellow tenants, and of his co-workers at the hotel at which he worked as a dishwasher. This was my favorite portion of the book because it feels the most light-hearted-- he has some cunning observations on the poor versus the rich, on the hypocrisies of society, and a few cunning tips on how to even the odds as someone who has the odds stacked against them. Unfortunately, this is also the part of the book that is rife with antisemitism. Given the time at which this was published, it was not shocking to excuse it, but the zeitgeist does not excuse the fact that many of his comments would be wholly inappropriate today, even if it makes it easier to understand why he says and thinks the things he does. Apparently, Orwell came to question many of his harmful beliefs later in life in his journals (he was an ardent diarist) and if that is the case, it is glad news, because history is filled with creators who have messed up some way ethically and rather than introspect and seek to be better people, they have simply doubled-down and closed their ears.
The London portion, as others have pointed out, is much starker and far more grim. There is a description of a lodging house that is truly horrifying. The characters he meets in this portion are also interesting but I feel like they didn't have the verve of the people he met in the Paris portion, and Orwell himself seems so much more exhausted here. The work is harsher and less forgiving, people seem so much more jaded, the conditions are draconian, etc. I also found it to be more repetitive and skimmed some portions, although I did like his chapter where he lists out some of the "cant" he observed among people working the streets, and meditates on slang, appropriated words, and Cockney dialect.
Whether you like or hate Orwell (and there are reasons to feel either way), I think this is a fascinating insight into his life, and there were several events that seemed to inspire his two major works, 1984 and Animal Farm (particularly his observations on how the working class is exploited and basically worked to the bone while the rich pretend to care but don't). The first portion of the book is like hearing about that one "bro" friend of yours recount travel to a questionable location while staying in a dangerous hostel. The second portion of the book is like hearing about that same "bro" friend recounting a terrible ordeal. The tonal shift between the two portions is noticeable and even though it affected my reading, it really made the book feel raw and real in a way that some of these literary figures sometimes don't because so much time has passed that their personalities feel removed from their work.
Anyone who enjoys edgy memoirs or learning more about literary figures will enjoy this.
3 to 3.5 stars
February 5, 2018
First published in 1933, this was George Orwell鈥檚 first full length book which made it into print. Although it reads as though the events within it were concurrent, in fact much of the latter part of the book was published as an essay, titled, 鈥淭he Spike,鈥� while the author was in Paris. However, the fact that events do not necessarily follow the narrative, certainly does not invalidate the book, or the points that Orwell makes 鈥� sadly still very valid today.
The first half of the book sees Orwell in Paris. Although certainly not flush, he does not experience poverty until his meagre savings are stolen. Orwell鈥檚 aunt was, as we now know, in Paris at the time 鈥� although we do not know whether she helped him financially. Whether she did or not, it is certainly that he did experience financial hardship and that this led him to taking up work as a lowly dishwasher in hotels and restaurants. The scenes of hotel life are so vividly written that you have no problem imagining the organised chaos, sheer filth and wonderfully exotic characters that exist within the pages. Paris, at that time, had a huge Russian 茅migr茅 population and Orwell is befriended by Boris, a Russian refugee and waiter. Through him, Orwell embarks on arduous attempts to find work. When work is finally obtained, the seventeen hour days, exhaustion and grinding work is offset by the possibility of eating regularly. Some of the characters in the Paris section of the book work so long that they seem trapped in kitchens and hotels around the city. If you go out for a meal after reading this book I will be very surprised!
In the book, Orwell returns to England after finally being driven to write to a friend to help him find work. When he arrives in London, he is lightly told that his employers had gone abroad for a month, but 鈥淚 suppose you can hang on till then?鈥� Of course, things did not happen quite this way 鈥� as we know, the London part of the book was written before the Paris section. Orwell was later to insist that the events within the book had taken place, albeit not in the order they are written here and it is not necessarily important that a little artistic tension is used to give the storyline a little tension.
The London section of the book sees Orwell living as a tramp in London. A real down and out, tramping from one hostel, or 鈥榮pike鈥� to another. He shows the reality of that life 鈥� of being forced to move on constantly, because of rules which refused a man a bed two nights running, the way the tramps were forced into prayer meetings for a cup of tea and a bun, of their resentment and discomfort, of laws which meant the police could move tramps on if they were asleep and the general discomfort and filth they lived with.
This is moving journalism, which really presents a vivid portrait of a life on the edge. As Orwell points out, when funds are low panic sets in. When there is nothing, there is just existence from one meal to the next. He makes many valid points about how the poor are treated and how their life could be improved. Having just read a news report which suggested that so many people in Britain are reduced to using food banks due to problems with their benefit payments and punitive punishments, you have to sadly conclude that his conclusions about the treatments of people living in poverty are still more than valid.
The first half of the book sees Orwell in Paris. Although certainly not flush, he does not experience poverty until his meagre savings are stolen. Orwell鈥檚 aunt was, as we now know, in Paris at the time 鈥� although we do not know whether she helped him financially. Whether she did or not, it is certainly that he did experience financial hardship and that this led him to taking up work as a lowly dishwasher in hotels and restaurants. The scenes of hotel life are so vividly written that you have no problem imagining the organised chaos, sheer filth and wonderfully exotic characters that exist within the pages. Paris, at that time, had a huge Russian 茅migr茅 population and Orwell is befriended by Boris, a Russian refugee and waiter. Through him, Orwell embarks on arduous attempts to find work. When work is finally obtained, the seventeen hour days, exhaustion and grinding work is offset by the possibility of eating regularly. Some of the characters in the Paris section of the book work so long that they seem trapped in kitchens and hotels around the city. If you go out for a meal after reading this book I will be very surprised!
In the book, Orwell returns to England after finally being driven to write to a friend to help him find work. When he arrives in London, he is lightly told that his employers had gone abroad for a month, but 鈥淚 suppose you can hang on till then?鈥� Of course, things did not happen quite this way 鈥� as we know, the London part of the book was written before the Paris section. Orwell was later to insist that the events within the book had taken place, albeit not in the order they are written here and it is not necessarily important that a little artistic tension is used to give the storyline a little tension.
The London section of the book sees Orwell living as a tramp in London. A real down and out, tramping from one hostel, or 鈥榮pike鈥� to another. He shows the reality of that life 鈥� of being forced to move on constantly, because of rules which refused a man a bed two nights running, the way the tramps were forced into prayer meetings for a cup of tea and a bun, of their resentment and discomfort, of laws which meant the police could move tramps on if they were asleep and the general discomfort and filth they lived with.
This is moving journalism, which really presents a vivid portrait of a life on the edge. As Orwell points out, when funds are low panic sets in. When there is nothing, there is just existence from one meal to the next. He makes many valid points about how the poor are treated and how their life could be improved. Having just read a news report which suggested that so many people in Britain are reduced to using food banks due to problems with their benefit payments and punitive punishments, you have to sadly conclude that his conclusions about the treatments of people living in poverty are still more than valid.
September 13, 2017
This reminded me a bit of Thoreau's Walden in that you don't feel like Orwell had to go through with this. It's self-imposed deprivation. However, while Thoreau went on a camping trip to prove he was a hardy outdoorsman and that anybody could and should do it, Orwell put himself through his ordeal in order to investigate a situation. The same problem exists in both circumstances though. Both men could extract themselves at any time if they wished. In Orwell's situation, that means he was only experiencing the details of being poor, not fully feeling the all-but inescapable confinement of being destitute. Knowing you can't get out of a situation has a deleterious affect on one's outlook and actions.
Having said that, Orwell gets as close to the real thing as probably possible in Down and Out in Paris and London. Throughout much of the narrative, he's living hand to mouth with only the clothes on his back for possessions. The going is tough and made tougher by the prejudice people show towards a tramp.
But Orwell's a good storyteller with plenty of tales to tell. His characterizations of some quite colorful characters are a joy. So, while this topic can get heavy at times, there's enough lighthearted fun within these pages to make the reading fairly even.
Because parts of this book were admittedly embellished and other parts are clearly a factual account, it's hard to know how to shelve this and it's not always easy to trust what you're reading. I want to say that it's obvious what's real and what isn't, but seeing how some people fall hard for fake news these days, I'm hesitant to label anything "obvious".
Having said that, Orwell gets as close to the real thing as probably possible in Down and Out in Paris and London. Throughout much of the narrative, he's living hand to mouth with only the clothes on his back for possessions. The going is tough and made tougher by the prejudice people show towards a tramp.
But Orwell's a good storyteller with plenty of tales to tell. His characterizations of some quite colorful characters are a joy. So, while this topic can get heavy at times, there's enough lighthearted fun within these pages to make the reading fairly even.
Because parts of this book were admittedly embellished and other parts are clearly a factual account, it's hard to know how to shelve this and it's not always easy to trust what you're reading. I want to say that it's obvious what's real and what isn't, but seeing how some people fall hard for fake news these days, I'm hesitant to label anything "obvious".
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