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  • Interesting as it is some of Orwell's earliest writing, but you can't help getting cross with him for purposefully suffering what a lot of other people could not help but suffer.. it felt a bit voyeuristic; even if his aim was to highlight the social problems of L and P.. hmm...

    

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• ― goldtop said on Mar 28, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Forse trattandosi di G.Orwell mi ero fatto false illusioni. Ideale per chi volesse apprendere tutti i segreti dell'arte di sopravvivere degli sguatteri a Parigi e dei barboni a Londra negli anni 30. Almeno per me però non lascia il segno dei suoi romanzi migliori.

    

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  • "It was the land of tea urn ad the Labour Exchange, as Paris is the land of bistro and the sweatshop"...
    Once more Orwell succedes in this book, in capturing the essence of life...street corners and outcast, down and out in Paris and London.
    The added value of the book it's its being a DIA ... Continue

    "It was the land of tea urn ad the Labour Exchange, as Paris is the land of bistro and the sweatshop"...
    Once more Orwell succedes in this book, in capturing the essence of life...street corners and outcast, down and out in Paris and London.
    The added value of the book it's its being a DIARY and not merely an Essay.
    Misery, hunger, squalor, Orwell's travel amongst the desperates is at the same time a real life experience and a reflection on society.
    Amazing his remarks on the stereotype of london's "tramp-monsters", parisian "plongeurs"...and even "the magic of swearing".
    Striking the ending lines of the book.
    As through his own words" I should like to understand what really goes on in the souls of plongeurs and tramps at Embankment sleepers. At present I do not feel that I have seen more than the fringe of poverty. (....) That is a beginning".

    

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