Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
Burmese Days is the first novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1934. Set in British Burma during the waning days of empire, when Burma was ruled from Delhi as part of British India, the novel serves as "a portrait of the dark side of the British Raj." At the centre of the novel is John Flory, "the lone and lacking individual ...
- George Orwell
- 1934
Tage in Burma ( Burmese Days) ist der erste erhalten gebliebene Roman von George Orwell. Das „aus eigenem Erleben, aber nicht autobiografisch“ [1] verfasste Buch spielt in den 1920er Jahren im vom British Empire kolonisierten Birma. Die Erstausgabe erschien 1934 in den USA, die britische Ausgabe erst ein Jahr später, „sorgsam zensuriert ...
Burmese Days. Published in the USA in 1934 and the UK in 1935, Burmese Days was George Orwell’s first novel.An examination of the debasing effect of empire on occupied and occupier, the novel follows John Flory, a timber-merchant in 1920s Burma (where Orwell himself served as an imperial policeman).
Burmese Days, Orwell’s second book, draws on his own experiences as a police officer in imperial Burma in the 1920s. The novel describes the experiences of John Flory, an English timber merchant living in a Burmese outpost. Flory feels increasingly estranged from the other Europeans. His only real friend is a Burmese doctor, despite the ...
- (28,7K)
- Hardcover
Burmese Days Summary. U Po Kyin, an extremely powerful magistrate in Kyauktada, Upper Burma, plots and schemes to take down Dr. Veraswami, an upstanding Burmese who affronts U Po Kyin through his rectitude and geniality. Flory, a timber merchant, has been in Burma for several years now. He meets with the handful of other Europeans in the Club ...
Reading Burmese Days, it is easy to see how Orwell’s hatred towards colonialism must have festered in the solitude and heat, growing like a hothouse flower. Orwell later wrote that he felt guilty for his role in the great despotic machine of empire and became haunted by the “faces of prisoners in the dock, of men waiting in the condemned cells, of subordinates I bullied and aged peasants I ...
Chapter 1. U Po Kyin, Sub-divisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda. It was only half past eight, but the. month was April, and there was a closeness in the air, a threat of. the long, stifling midday hours. Occasional faint breaths of wind,
