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Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations fighting in the Spanish Civil War for the POUM militia of the Republican army. Published in 1938 (about a year before the war ended) with little commercial success, it gained more attention in the 1950s following the success of Orwell's better-known works Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Hommage à la Catalogne (titre original : Homage to Catalonia) est un ouvrage de l'écrivain britannique George Orwell, qui traite de la guerre civile espagnole, paru en 1938. L'édition française, dans une traduction d'Yvonne Davet, est publiée pour la première fois en 1955 aux éditions Gallimard sous le titre La Catalogne libre

Homage to Catalonia Summary. Next. Chapter 1. In December, 1936, George Orwell leaves his English home for Spain, a country in the midst of a brutal civil war. Like most international observers, Orwell sees the war in Spain as a struggle between democracy and Fascism. He volunteers to fight on the side of the Republicans (a coalition of

Although it covers only six months of period from that time and concentrates only on the incidents happening in Catalonia and is much shorter compared to the tomes written on this topic it still manages to capture the essence of the War. I well and truly believe that the Spanish Civil War was not only a military conflict but a conflict of ideologies - conservative Monarchists allied with the Fascists against the Republicans who had the communists and anarchists in tow. It was also a