Down and Out in Paris and London (豆瓣)

作者: [英] George Orwell
出版社: Mariner Books
出版年: 1972-3-15
页数: 228
定价: USD 14.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780156262248

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This unusual fictional account, in good part autobiographical, narrates without self-pity and often with humor the adventures of a penniless British writer among the down-and-out of two great cities. In the tales of both cities we learn some sobering Orwellian truths about poverty and society.

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奥威尔(OrwellGeorge，1903，印度孟加拉蒙蒂哈里～1950-01-21，伦敦)英国小说家、散文家、评论家。以小说《动物庄园》和《一九八四年》著名。奥威尔原名埃里克-阿瑟-布莱尔。他的第一部小说《巴黎伦敦落魄记》署名乔冶-奥威尔(此姓源于东英吉利亚美丽的奥威尔河)。

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奥威尔出生在印度孟加拉，父亲是英帝国在印度的小文职官员，母亲为法国血统，是在缅甸的一个营业不佳的柚木商人的女儿。奥威尔在贫穷、而又自视高人一等的生活环境中长大。1922年担任印度皇家警察的助理地区警监。由于认识到英帝国的统治违反缅甸人民的意愿感到内疚，于1927年离开缅甸，次年1月1日辞职。后以这段经历为素材，写小说《缅甸岁月(1934)和自传体散文《猎象记》及《绞刑》，种族与阶级的差别使他无法与缅甸人生活在一起，他回英后为了赎罪，穿上褴褛的衣服到伦敦东部和巴黎的贫民窟同工人、乞丐和洗碟工生活在一起，与英国流浪汉一起流浪，与贫民去肯特的日野里收摘蛇麻草。根据这些经验，他写了《巴黎伦敦落魄记》(1933)。对帝国主义的反感不仅使奥威尔放弃资产阶级的生活，而且使他重新确定自己的政治态度。从缅甸回国后，他立即宣称自己是无政府主义者；但到30年代，他开始认为自己是社会主义者。他的第一部社会主义著作是《通向威根码头之路》(1937)，在书的结尾处尖锐地批评了当时的社会主义运动。

1936年去西班牙报道内战，并留下来参加共和军方面的民兵，后升任少尉。在特鲁埃尔咽喉受了重伤，后因反对共产党镇压政治反对派的作法，1937年5月逃离西班牙。次年写了《向加泰罗尼亚致敬》。第二次世界大战爆发后，先后在英国广播公司印度部和工党左翼《论坛报》工作，成为多产的新闻记者与文艺评论作家。1944年写成政治寓言小说《动物庄园》，1945年出版后获得名声和优厚的收入。最后一部讽刺小说《一九八四》(1949)的发表，使他更为出名，其中描写了一个过分集权的社会如何歪曲真相和不断地改写历史。他因肺病于1950年1月死于伦敦一家医院。

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在这部描写贫困生活的著名作品中，奥威尔向人们展示了贫穷的真正含义。主人公的霉运从所住的旅馆被一个意大利人偷窃开始，当时口袋里只剩下47法郎，这显然已经非常不妙了，“即便不是赤贫，也处于赤贫的边缘了”。聪明的读者或许能够猜测出，这必定是一个讲述生活水准每况愈下的故事，可却不曾料想，甫一开篇就会这般凄惨，不免要心生疑惑：后面尚有厚厚的几百页，居然真的能再穷下去吗？究竟还要怎样地存活？不错，奥威尔便把这种生活硬生生地摆在我们面前：拼死拼活地打工、当衣服、乞讨、接受救济……实在没得吃，就索性躺着不动弹，于是生活已不成其为生活，仅仅是保全性命而已。能将这种遭遇写得如此触目惊心又不失真实，非亲身经历所不能，所以说，奥威尔不单是观察者，更是体验者。这等生活，仅是依照原样叙讲已能令人多有慨叹，再经由奥威尔客观、深沉的笔触，自是格外地感动人心。

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珏氏 2006-05-15 13:18:06

一提起政治寓言，乔治•奥威尔无疑站在二十世纪反乌托邦文学的最高峰。然而，对于他这样一位极其特殊的作家而言，《一九八四》所引发的过多关注与评论也许并非幸事。在通常的文学印象里，奥威尔短暂的写作生涯几乎都与所谓的“政治讽刺小说”联系在一起，《动物农庄》和《一... (9回应)

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减卐肥™ 2010-11-05 10:07:09

奥威尔不能算高产的作家，我读过他的小说有：《一九八四》、《动物农场》、《巴黎伦敦落魄记》、《上来透口气》、《我为什么要写作》，而《向加泰罗尼亚致敬》和《缅甸岁月》我以前也翻阅过。感觉如果按照现在诺贝尔奖评委会的逻辑，奥威尔如果还活着，绝对有希望同时获得文学... (9回应)

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奥威尔投稿失败的经过

环玥 2007-05-26 02:19:33

一本好书的评断标准是什么？在我，就是午夜失眠时，可以安抚我烦躁的心魔，让我一口气读完的东西。乔治·奥威尔的大名如雷灌耳，《动物庄园》和《一九八四》都是必读书目，然而语言的思想性好像必须和艰涩相连，名著读得磕绊，思想也是郁闷的，我这样对政治回避的人都害怕... (21回应)

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遥远的旅行

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总的来说，在书里的俄国人名字通常都叫做鲍里斯这个名字，如果不叫鲍里斯就会一定叫尤里，如果不叫尤里就会叫伊万，总之不可能叫做古德列夫斯基这么长，因为大家记不住。我在小时候就常常吃这样的亏，看一些貌似艰深的书的时候，辨别人名字就花掉我大部分时间，往... (1回应)

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Orwell's first published book

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I was trying to find 1984 by Orwell in the library, instead I found this little book. This is the first published work by George Orwell, and was a loosely autobiographic novel. It chronicles the time he spent in Paris as a Plongeur (an employee charged with... (8回应)

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And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
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And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes.
One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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Chapter XXII

Spock (齐天大圣)

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marrie...
2014-12-02 16:26

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.

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Chapter XXI

Spock (齐天大圣)

We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to tri...
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We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it. 'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.' Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.

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The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.
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The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.

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And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
2017-07-06 14:01

And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes.
One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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Chapter XXII

Spock (齐天大圣)

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marrie...
2014-12-02 16:26

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.

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Chapter XXI

Spock (齐天大圣)

We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to tri...
2014-12-02 16:12

We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it. 'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.' Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.

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chapter I

走

And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes. One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of...
2017-07-06 14:01

And yet amid the noise and dirt lived the usual respectable French shopkeepers, bakers and laundresses and the like, keeping themselves to themselves and quietly piling up small fortunes.
One room was let to two diﬀerent lodgers, one a day worker and the other a night worker.
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

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Chapter XXII

Spock (齐天大圣)

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marrie...
2014-12-02 16:26

I think one should start by saying that a PLONGEUR is one of the slaves of the modern world. Not that there is any need to whine over him, for he is better off than many manual workers, but still, he is no freer than if he were bought and sold. His work is servile and without art; he is paid just enough to keep him alive; his only holidays is the sack. He is cut off from marriage, or, if he marries, his wife must work too. Except by a lucky chance, he has no escape from this life, save into prison. At this moment there are men with university degrees scrubbing dishes in Paris for ten or fifteen hours a day. One cannot say that it is mere idleness on their part, for an idle man cannot be a PLONGEUR they have simply been trapped by a routine which makes thought impossible. If PLONGEURS thought at all, they would long ago have formed a union and gone on strike for better treatment. But they do not think, because they have no leisure for it; their life has made slaves of them.

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Chapter XXI

Spock (齐天大圣)

We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to tri...
2014-12-02 16:12

We quarrelled over things of inconceivable pettiness. The dustbin, for instance, was an unending source of quarrels - whether it should be put where I wanted it, which was in the cook's way, or where she wanted it, which was between me and the sink. Once she nagged and nagged until at last, in pure spite, I lifted the dustbin up and put it out in the middle of the floor, where she was bound to trip over it. 'Now, you cow,' I said, 'move it yourself.' Poor old woman, it was too heavy for her to lift, and she sat down, put her head on the table and burst out crying. And I jeered at her. This is the kind of effect that fatigue has upon one's manners.

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Chapter XX

Spock (齐天大圣)

The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.
2014-12-02 15:39

The only person who never forgot Us manners was the PATRON. He kept the same hours as the rest of us, but he had no work to do, for it was his wife who really managed things. His sole job, besides ordering the supplies, was to stand in the bar smoking cigarettes and looking gentlemanly, and he did that to perfection.

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