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1984: in makkelijke taal
1984 maakt deel uit van de serie Wereldverhalen; klassiekers naverteld in eenvoudige taal.
166 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2022
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George Orwell
1,309 books45.9k followersEric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.
In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England.
Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture.
Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture, have been widely acclaimed.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian" — now a byword for any oppressive or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society — have entered the vernacular.
In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937. Orwell was severely wounded when he was shot through his throat. Later the organization that he had joined when he joined the Republican cause, The Workers Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), was painted by the pro-Soviet Communists as a Trotskyist organization (Trotsky was Joseph Stalin's enemy) and disbanded. Orwell and his wife were accused of "rabid Trotskyism" and tried in absentia in Barcelona, along with other leaders of the POUM, in 1938. However by then they had escaped from Spain and returned to England.
Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture.
Orwell is best known for the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (published in 1949) and the satirical novella Animal Farm (1945) — they have together sold more copies than any two books by any other twentieth-century author. His 1938 book Homage to Catalonia, an account of his experiences as a volunteer on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, together with numerous essays on politics, literature, language, and culture, have been widely acclaimed.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian" — now a byword for any oppressive or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society — have entered the vernacular.
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September 2, 2024
Ik heb er meer dan drie maanden over gedaan om het te lezen! Op de eerste pagina van het boek staat dat het boek in makkelijke taal is, maar dat was het niet voor mij! Nadat ik niveau B1 in het Nederlands had afgerond, vond ik het tijd om een boek in deze taal te lezen, en toen ik dit boek op de kleine boekenplank op mijn school zag staan, zei ik: dit is het boek.
Een boek dat een situatie beschrijft die mij niet zo vreemd is, komend uit Big Brother-land. Niet de denkbeeldige Big Brother, maar de echte.
Af en toe 1984 lezen is nodig om te onthouden hoe regeringen wreed kunnen worden als we ze hun gang laten gaan. Ik hoop dat Denk-politie geen Nederlands kent en deze tekst niet leest!
Het was een goede uitdaging en ik ben blij dat ik het heb kunnen afmaken.
Een boek dat een situatie beschrijft die mij niet zo vreemd is, komend uit Big Brother-land. Niet de denkbeeldige Big Brother, maar de echte.
Af en toe 1984 lezen is nodig om te onthouden hoe regeringen wreed kunnen worden als we ze hun gang laten gaan. Ik hoop dat Denk-politie geen Nederlands kent en deze tekst niet leest!
Het was een goede uitdaging en ik ben blij dat ik het heb kunnen afmaken.
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