Orwell's Roses

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EAN:9780593083369
Značka: Penguin LCC US

Připravovaná novinka. Expedujeme do dvou pracovních dnů po vydání.

Dostupnost: NOVINKA připravovaná
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Anotace
A lush exploration of roses, pleasure, and politics, and a fresh take on George Orwell as an avid gardener whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world In the year 1936 a writer planted roses. So begins Rebecca Solnit's new book, a reflection on George Orwell's passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly flowers, and the natural world illuminates his other commitments as a writer and antifascist, and the intertwined politics of nature and power. Sparked by her unexpected encounter with the surviving roses he planted in 1936, Solnit's account of this understudied aspect of Orwell's life explores his writing and his actions-from going deep into the coal mines of England, fighting in the Spanish Civil War, critiquing Stalin when much of the international left still supported him (and then critiquing that left), to his analysis of the relationship between lies and authoritarianism. Through Solnit's celebrated ability to draw unexpected connections, readers encounter the photographer Tina Modotti's roses and her Stalinism, Stalin's obsession with forcing lemons to grow in impossibly cold conditions, Orwell's slave-owning ancestors in Jamaica, Jamaica Kincaid's critique of colonialism and imperialism in the flower garden, and the brutal rose industry in Colombia that supplies the American market. The book draws to a close with a rereading of Nineteen Eighty-Four that completes her portrait of a more hopeful Orwell, as well as a reflection on pleasure, beauty, and joy as acts of resistance.
Informace o sortimentu
Druh sortimentu Kniha
Autor Rebecca Solnit
Značka Penguin LCC US
Rok vydání 2021
Pořadí vydání 1. vydání
Vazba Pevná bez přebalu lesklá
Počet stran 256
ISBN 0593083369
EAN 9780593083369
Interní kód 0358035
Produktový manažer Jana Knopová (jana.knopova@knihcentrum.cz)
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