When George Orwell went to war, he expected a nasty business of skirmishes—the clanging of iron and steel and the shouts of victory or death. But as his 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia documents well, the days and weeks of boredom in between battles, when weather, hunger, and infection preoccupied his mind, are their own kind of torture. Even when Orwell is shot in the throat, he downplays the pain of the moment, pondering it as a surreal break from the doldrums of marching and scouting.
Orwell’s experience during the Spanish Civil War wasn’t akin to what took place in the trenches of World War I, nor on the frontline of Normandy, and as such Homage to Catalonia is no Storm of Steel. At least in that more harrowing war story, one can see the romantic side of mass death just as many saw beauty and meaning in...
Orwell’s experience during the Spanish Civil War wasn’t akin to what took place in the trenches of World War I, nor on the frontline of Normandy, and as such Homage to Catalonia is no Storm of Steel. At least in that more harrowing war story, one can see the romantic side of mass death just as many saw beauty and meaning in...
- 9/7/2024
- by Zach Lewis
- Slant Magazine
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