小說/散文

Animal Farm 動物農莊
出版社： 書林出版有限公司
書林書號：
00182010
作者：
Orwell, George
定價：
180
會員價：
$153
ISBN：
957586865X
出版年份：
2000
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
113
  • 本書介紹
《動物農莊》是二十世紀最著名的政治寓言之一，描寫一個農莊中的動物揭竿而起，推翻農莊主人的極權統治，組織所謂的「民主自治」政府，最終卻發現政權成為主政者謀求私利的工具，因而產生了新的政治暴力與極權政府。本書以動物們追求自由民主的夢想為命題，強烈批判二十世紀馬克思理論與共產政權的正當性，質疑政治權力的濫用，暴露統治者以政治理想為藉口而行政治暴力之實的虛偽心態，為批判文學的經典之作。

作者簡介
喬治‧歐威爾以銳目觀察，批判假社會主義之名、行極權主義之實的史達林主義；以辛辣的筆觸諷刺泯滅人性的極權主義社會和追逐權力者；而小說中對極權主義政權的預言在之後的五十年中也不斷地與歷史相印證，他在小說中創造的「老大哥」、「新話」、「雙重思想」等詞彙，皆已收入英語詞典，而由他的名字衍生出的「歐威爾主義」、「歐威爾式的」等新詞，甚至成為日常通用語彙，可見其人與作品在英語國家的巨大影響。

Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned—a razor-edged fairy tale for grown-ups that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible.

When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh.
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