Burmese Days - George Orwell

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Résumé :
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the centre of the novel is John Flory, the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel describes both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people....

Biographie:
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 - 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and essayist, journalist and critic. His works are characterized by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.George Orwell is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four....

Sommaire:
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell. Set in British Burma during the waning days of Empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, it is a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj. At the centre of the novel is John Flory, the lone and lacking individual trapped within a bigger system that is undermining the better side of human nature. The novel describes both indigenous corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, after all, natives were natives-interesting, no doubt, but finally...an inferior people....