Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell, 1933
UK
224 pages
Read in 2023.06
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✔ Orwell's memoir living in poverty
✔ HIs thoughts on poverty and social injustice
✔ Life in London and Paris
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ Orwell spent a few years in the poverty. No doubt his more famous books are based on what he saw there. It is a failure of the society as a system, rather than a failure of the poor.
🔽 Book review and notes 🔽
He writes about his lives where he spent a few years in the poverty.
He captures the lives lives of those who are at the bottom of the society.
Or below, considering he was "down" below the cities, literally, washing dishes, nothing but cleaning up the mess the higher up society creates.
He describes what he did, where he went in those years, but also he drops some of his own thoughts about the poverty.
No doubts his more famous books are based on the true poverty he saw there and it was clear to him; it is the failure of the society as a system, rather than the failure of the poor.
It is the system that makes sure these poor remain as poor.
His message of hope; a poor man can live with dignity if he keeps his mind busy.
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