“Days in Burma.” The early novel by Orwell, in which the future great English writer enters into a peculiar literary confrontation with his equally ingenious predecessor – Kipling.
The life of the British-colonists in Burma, uniform in a sense of superiority over the natives, but spread internally, exhausted by snobbery and small straightforwardness …
The fate of local inhabitants, outwardly Europeanized, but retained deeply inside, eastern mentality, inaccessible to the understanding of the British …
These are the main topics of an excellent realistic work, in the center of which the sad fate of the Englishman, who lost faith in the empire.
Author
Orwell George
Translator
Domiteeva Vera Mikhailovna
Publisher
Astrel, 2012
Series
Classic English novel
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