Homage to Catalonia revisited. From Vulnerability to resistance
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/1313
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.171
ISSN: 1578-3820
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/odisea.v0i6.171
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This paper focuses on an analysis of Homage to Catalonia (1938), with a view to highlighting the necessity of revisiting the texts from the past, in order to establish a deep and mutually enriching dialogue between discourses and ideologies belonging to different periods. The texts from the past should not be considered as frozen fossils, but rather, as words alive throughout time, subject to a continuous process of re-interpretation in the present. I intend to show how, in Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell inserts a peculiar philosophy of resistance against the timeless problem of alienation which, due to its contemporary relevance, goes beyond the contextualisation of the novel in the Spanish Civil War. El presente artículo se centra en analizar Homage to Catalonia (1938) con vistas a subrayar la necesidad de una vuelta continua hacia los textos del pasado para establecer un diálogo profundo y enriquecedor entre los discursos y las ideologías de épocas distintas. Los textos del pas...
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Literature of political commitment
Literatura de compromiso político
Homenaje a Cataluña