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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.
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Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
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- Année de publication
- 2013
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- George Orwell
- Éditeur
- Penguin Books
- Publié
- 2013
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0141393033
- ISBN13
- 9780141393032
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Cartes et voyages, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Voyage, Autobiographies et mémoires, Journalisme littéraire, France, 20e siècle, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Angleterre, Grande-Bretagne, Souvenirs, Littérature anglaise, Problèmes sociaux, Reportages, Londres, Paris (ville), Pauvreté
- Première publication
- 1933
- Titre original
- Down and Out in Paris and London
- Évaluation
- 4,1 sur 5
- Description
- George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hôtel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer.