Opresión Y Resistencia: Escritos Contra El Totalitarismo 1937-1949 / Oppression and Resistance

«Se enfrentó a las distintas ortodoxias y despotismos de su época con poco más que una destartalada máquina de escribir y una personalidad tenaz.' -Christopher Hitchens >ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

"He stood up to different orthodoxies and despotisms of his time with little more than a beat-up typewriter and an unyielding personality." --Christopher Hitchens Written between 1937 and 1949, the collected works analyze and expose the kind of political abuse that was ultimately described as totalitarianism. George Orwell reviews matters as diverse as the Spanish Civil War, imperialism, Arthur Koestler's work, nationalisms, and the figure of Gandhi, but always accentuating critical thinking in order to evaluate facts without accepting partisan simplifications or simple generalizations. Few writers encourage us so firmly to stay alert and think for ourselves, resisting the ever present evil of oppression.

GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) fue uno de los escritores más lúcidos del siglo xx. Estudiante en Eton, policía británico en Birmania, lavaplatos en París, librero en Londres, miliciano del POUM, locutor de la BBC, redactor y columnista, vertió su experiencia en crónicas, ensayos y novelas imprescindibles