by George Orwell · Diario El País, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669680
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«Homenaje a Cataluña» is George Orwell's chronicle of the Spanish Civil War, published by Diario El País in hardcover (297 pages, in Spanish).
George Orwell arrives in Barcelona in December 1936 intending to write chronicles, but ends up enlisting in the POUM militias. The book recounts Orwell's experience on the Aragon front, the throat wound, the May 1937 events in Barcelona, and the subsequent persecution suffered by the POUM.
Work originally published in 1938 under the title Homage to Catalonia; this edition belongs to the Clásicos del Siglo XX collection.
Readers interested in the Spanish Civil War, twentieth-century history, and war memoirs.
Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, and support of democratic socialism.
