by George Orwell · Debutxaca · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418196478
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The definitive edition of George Orwell's essay on the Spanish Civil War, with a prologue by Miquel Berga and a new translation by Jordi Ainaud. Homenatge a Catalunya is an essential work to understand essential aspects of the Spanish Civil War. Orwell's account has become a unique testimony that collects his experiences in Barcelona and on the Aragon Front. The British author arrived in December 1936 in a Barcelona in full revolutionary effervescence and immediately enlisted in the POUM militias. He returned from the front because a Francoist bullet pierced his neck. Paradoxically, he had to flee Barcelona persecuted by the same Stalinist forces that had liquidated the POUM leader Andreu Nin, after the Fets de Maig of 1937. This edition includes the definitive version of the work, a prologue by professor and writer Miquel Berga, which masterfully reconstructs the editorial history of the book, and the essay "The Spanish War in Retrospect". Written by Orwell in 1942, four years after the publication of Homenatge a Catalunya, this essay is now read as a key text to understand the impact that Orwell's experience of the war had.
Eric 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, and support of democratic socialism.
