Down and Out in Paris and London

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"Фунты лиха в Париже и Лондоне" - драматичная и в то же время преисполненная свойственным Джорджу Оруэллу язвительным юмором автобиографическая история молодого английского интеллектуала, перебивающегося в столицах случайными заработками посудомойщика в ресторанах. Мрачный, блестящий и точный автопортрет одного из типичных представителей европейского "потерянного поколения". Книга на английском языке. George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a moving tour of the underworld of society. 'You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, it documents his 'first contact with poverty'. Here, he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor - sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses of last resort, working as a dishwasher in Paris's vile 'Hotel X', surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps, a star-gazing pavement artist and a starving Russian ex-army captain. Exposing a shocking, previously-hidden world to his readers, Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time - and in doing so, found his voice as a writer. Тематика: Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке