The Spanish Civil War in which Georges Orwell participated in 1937 marks a decisive point in the trajectory of the great English writer. Engaged in the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) militias, the future author of 1984 gets to know Catalonia at the time when a revolutionary wave abolished all social class barriers. The outlawing of the POUM by the Communists made him loathe the political game of Stalinist methods, which demanded the sacrifice of honour for the sake of efficiency. Both testimony and a reflection, this book remains today as yesterday, a breviary of freedom.
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