Comments | christina_reads: Animal Farm

christina_reads

Animal Farm

Apr 17, 2010 00:08

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era: modern, genre: fiction, topic: politics, genre: classics, reviews, era: 20th century, challenge: 1010 category challenge, challenge: classics

Comments 6

ros360 April 24 2010, 20:34:57 UTC

You're right, it is deeper than just a satyre on Communism. It is always easy to criticize something, you may throw down a regime or an opponent, but will you bring something better instead?

christina_reads April 24 2010, 23:35:10 UTC

Good point! It's foolish to seek to destroy a regime without having something better to replace it with.

Is it really a Soviet anti-utopia? sipuha May 4 2010, 09:12:14 UTC

I really enjoyed the book when I read it and I started digging. Well, Orwell wrote a lot of essays and answered a lot of letters concerning his Farm. And he NEVER said it was really limited to the USSSR.

Re: Is it really a Soviet anti-utopia? christina_reads May 4 2010, 12:05:40 UTC

Unlike you, I haven't done any digging into the background of this book, so you may well be right. I was just going by what I've heard from other people...reading it as an allegory of the USSR seems to be the most common interpretation. But I certainly think it could apply to any totalitarian regime, not just the USSR.

Re: Is it really a Soviet anti-utopia? sipuha May 4 2010, 14:31:30 UTC

I'm sorry is I sounded a bit agressive.
BTW, I like most of your reviews - they help me pick the books to read in English)

Re: Is it really a Soviet anti-utopia? christina_reads May 4 2010, 14:59:29 UTC

Don't worry about it! :) And thank you for the lovely compliment!