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Down and Out in Paris and London (originale 1933; edizione 2011)

di George Orwell

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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.

A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the wellspring of world reform, Orwell actually went to live among them in England and on the continent. His novel draws on his experiences of this world, from the bottom of the echelon in the kitchens of posh French restaurants to the free lodging houses, tramps, and street people of London. In the tales of both cities, we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

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Utente:John_Vaughan
Titolo:Down and Out in Paris and London
Autori:George Orwell
Info:IndoEuropeanPublishing.com (2011), Paperback, 196 pages
Collezioni:Collected Authors, La tua biblioteca, History, Travel
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Etichette:Travel, History, Anthropology, George Orwell, Paris, London

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Senza un soldo a Parigi e a Londra di George Orwell (1933)

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    Una paga da fame: come (non) si arriva a fine mese nel paese piu ricco del mondo di Barbara Ehrenreich (WoodsieGirl)
    WoodsieGirl: I'd recommend reading both, just to see how little things change.
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    La strada di Wigan Pier di George Orwell (meggyweg, John_Vaughan)
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    Furore di John Steinbeck (tcarter)
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    Fiorira l'aspidistra di George Orwell (meggyweg)
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    La giungla di Upton Sinclair (meggyweg)
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    Il popolo dell'abisso di Jack London (bertilak)
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    In Search of England di H. V. Morton (John_Vaughan)
    John_Vaughan: On re-reading these two books it is hard to believe that these two works were written almost at the same time and about the same culture. One by Blair deliberatly self-impoverished, one by Morton - by car!
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    Lowest of the Low di Günter Wallraff (alv)
    alv: Orwell lives together with the lowest of the lowest in the Paris and London of the final 20s. Walraff impersonates a turkish immigrant to the prosperous Federal Republic of Germany of the mid-80s.
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    Hard Work: Life in Low-Pay Britian di Polly Toynbee (DLSmithies)
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    Kitchen confidential: avventure gastronomiche a New York di Anthony Bourdain (sbuehrle)
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    English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes di Beryl Bainbridge (John_Vaughan)
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    Passeggiata selvaggia di Nelson Algren (WSB7)
    WSB7: Contrasting life of the down and out at the same period of time in New Orleans.
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    Hotel Bemelmans di Ludwig Bemelmans (SomeGuyInVirginia)
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    Ragged London: The Life of London's Poor di Michael Fitzgerald (meggyweg)
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    Life at the Bottom : The Worldview that Makes the Underclass di Theodore Dalrymple (bertilak)
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The fact that all I wanted to eat when reading this book was a loaf of stale bread and milk speaks volumes about his writing. He writes about poverty in a way that sucks you in - he both glamorizes it and shows the awful truth about it. Loved this book! ( )
  shevsters | Feb 19, 2024 |
Orwell has been called a master of plain style. You need not read further than the first page of this, his first book, to learn this doesn’t mean dull or simple. He describes his street in Paris as a “ravine of tall, leprous houses, lurching toward one another in queer attitudes, as though they had all been frozen in the act of collapse.” Anyone who has ever tried to write recognizes the keen observation and quest for just the right word—and then the next, and the next—that goes into producing just one sentence as good as this.
Yet this skillful prose doesn’t exist just to be good writing. This is prose with a purpose. Determined to become a writer, he was equally determined to find something that seemed worth writing about: the life of the absolutely destitute. Despite having a family ready to take him in (something he never mentions), as well as helpful acquaintances, he allows himself to slide down the social scale to a life of absolute poverty.
This gives a dual optic to the book. Most of the book describes Orwell’s life as a penniless dishwasher in a fashionable Paris hotel and then as a tramp in England. Then, toward the end of each half of the book, Orwell includes reflections: an essay that asks why the life of the plongeur is as it is, a brief chapter on slang and swearing, then a short essay on tramps, followed by one describing sleeping accommodations. These contain practical suggestions for improvement. Above all, Orwell argues for a change in perception from that of the “tramp-monster” to what he experienced: “A tramp is only an Englishman out of work.”
Whether Boris, the Russian emigré Orwell befriends in Paris, his tramp companion Paddy, or Bozo the screever (sidewalk chalk artist), it is the unforgettable portraits as well as the record of lived experience that gives Orwell’s prescriptions their credibility.
One more thing: Orwell is the master of the closing sentence. ( )
  HenrySt123 | Dec 14, 2023 |
I enjoyed the Paris part more. Boris was very entertaining and in comparison being down and out in London just seemed depressing and bleak. At least in Paris there was some life and fun in between the hardship of it all.
  BookyMaven | Dec 6, 2023 |
Pretty good stuff. I liked the Paris section much better than the London section because it was more interesting to read about the behind-the-scenes of hotels and restaurants rather than the toils of tramp life. ( )
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Fantastic introspective view of poverty in two iconic European cities a century ago. ( )
  RyneAndal | Jul 12, 2023 |

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The next morning we began looking once more for Paddy's friend, who was called Bozo, and was a screever—that is, a pavement artist. . . . He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.
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Orwell's own experiences inspire this semi-autobiographical novel about a penniless man living in Paris in the early 1930s. The narrator's poverty brings him into contact with strange incidents and characters, which he manages to chronicle with great sensitivity and graphic power. The latter half of the book takes the English narrator to his home city, London, where the world of poverty is different in externals only.

A socialist who believed that the lower classes were the wellspring of world reform, Orwell actually went to live among them in England and on the continent. His novel draws on his experiences of this world, from the bottom of the echelon in the kitchens of posh French restaurants to the free lodging houses, tramps, and street people of London. In the tales of both cities, we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

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