Rating: 10/10Published: 1945
Number of pages: 120
Started: 26 February 2008
Finished: 27 February 2008
Summary (taken from blurb):
First published in 1945, Animal Farm has become the classic political fable of the twentieth century. Adding his own brand of poignancy and wit, George Orwell tells the story of a revolution among animals of a farm, and how idealism was betrayed by power, corruption and lies.
Comments:
This is probably the most technically brilliant novel I have ever read. It's not exactly a page-turner, but it is perfection (or as near it as you're going to get). The story is neither too long nor too short; there is not a single superfluous sentence in the entire novel.
Animal Farm is a political satire of Soviet socialism - the Rebellion of the farm animals against the humans represents (as far as I can understand it) the revolution of the Bolsheviks against the Russian government. The human owners are driven off the farm and the animals finally have their freedom. They determine to create a society in which all animals are equal and must work together in order to survive, but, of course, things start to fall apart and we learn that some animals are more equal than others. This story works on so many levels and really does a wonderful job in exploring the concepts of power and corruption. Very highly recommended.
3 comments:
The interesting thing is how short it is. I think this may be something to do with postwar paper rationing but I may be wrong. There certainly was paper rationing in WWII but whether it was still going by the time Animal farm was published, I'm not sure.
Wow, I've never heard that before. Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
is that true that only 1 day you have written the animal farm.?
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