The 1946 New York Times Book Review of Animal Farm

George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

George Orwell’s Dystopian book – Animal Farm has been banned in no fewer than 126 countries including the Soviet Union, China and United Arab Erimates.

This is a book I can read over and over again, probably because I have an interest in dystopian novels, meme’s, poetry, history and film. It is by far my favourite genre.

1946 - George Orwell, Animal Farm

George Orwell in his critical writings shows imagination and taste; his wit is both edged and human. Few writers of any period have been able to use the English language so simply and accurately to say what they mean, and at the same time to mean something.

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin (“un conte satirique contre Staline“), and in his essay “Why I Write” (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, “to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole”.

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

Below is a copy of the 1946 New York Times book review for George Orwell’s, Animal Farm.

1946 - George Orwell, Animal Farm

 

 

1946 - George Orwell, Animal Farm

 


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