Paperback, 215 pages
Spanish language
Published April 20, 2014 by Debolsillo.
Los animales de la granja de los Jones se sublevan contra sus dueños humanos y les vencen. Pero la rebelión fracasará al surgir entre ellos rivalidades y envidias, y al aliarse algunos con los amos que derrocaron, traicionando su propia identidad y los intereses de su clase. Aunque Rebelión en la granja fue concebida como una despiadada sátira del estalinismo, el carácter universal de su mensaje hace de este libro un extraordinario análisis de la corrupción que engendra el poder, una furibunda diatriba contra el totalitarismo de cualquier especie y un lúcido examen de las manipulaciones que sufre la verdad histórica en los momentos de transformación política.
I don't really remember it... kind of like high school.
Can't believe Orwell looked at the rise of the Soviet Union, the bloody collapse of a workers revolution into a personality cult that was completely detached from its original intensions, and thought "a great way to summarise this would be with farm animals".
And was correct.
‘Animal Farm’ is truly an interesting story; we all know what the story represents but George Orwell portrayed communists Russia in World War II really well. The book was short and I was able to read it in one day, almost in one sitting. I think we could spend a long time discussing which animal represents which Russian and working out which battle was The Battle of the Cowshed or The Battle of the Windmill. I did especially enjoy the flag (The Horn and Hoof Flag reminiscent of the hammer and sickle), Squealer (propaganda pig) and Moses the Raven (the Russian Orthodox Church). It is definitely one of those books you need to read at least once in your lifetime. I think I enjoyed it more than ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’.
I read this a long time ago, and I remember it only vaguely, except that I clearly recall being unimpressed by it. It all seemed too obvious. Compared to 1984, it is not worth reading. At least that's what I thought at the time.
